Electronics vs. Paper

[James H. Beach]

Dear Joe:


Would the proposed registration of botanical names, impact on the validity
of publishing new taxa on the net?


Jim Beach




On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. wrote:

> Registration of botanical names was put into the Tokyo ICBN effective 1
> January 2000.  The only way that it could be passed was with the
> condition that the idea be voted on a second time at the next Int. Bot.
> Congress in St. Louis.  Those in favor of this should be looking ahead to
> St. Louis and be ready to support the idea and vote for it again.
>
> Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.
> USDA, Agricultural Research Service
> Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
> Room 304, Building 011A, BARC-West
> Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 USA
> Voice telephone: 301-504-9447
> FAX: 301-504-5810
> Internet: jkirkbri at asrr.arsusda.gov
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Finn N. Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > Many new species are published in obscure and inaccessible journals.
> > It has often been suggested (at least in Botany) that there should be
> > just ONE journal for official publishing of new taxa and names.  This
> > would perhaps be too difficult to handle  in practize, but what
> > about ONE official mandatory database with descriptions, specimen
> > citations and perhaps also illustrations and due references to the
> > officially valid paper-publication?
> >
> >                       Finn N. Rasmussen
> >                       Botanical Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
> >                       Gothersgade 140, DK-1123 Copenhagen K., Denmark
> >                       Phone: +45 35 32 21 55   Fax: +45 33 13 91 04
> >                       Web homepage: http://www.bot.ku.dk
> >                       Email: FinnR at bot.ku.dk
> >
>


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