names for sale

[Robin Panza]

>herbarium specimens. He could make more money if his specimens represented
>new names, so he started his own journal to publish hundreds of new names.

However, we now require peer review for validity of a name, which will act as a
brake to such a tendency.  I think this would minimize the danger of
oversplitting for the sake of funding.

Robin Panza
Section of Birds
Carnegie Museum of Natural History