taxonomy

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 01:42 PM 01-29-99 -0500, you wrote:

>Although, if "The Disappearance" was a problem in
>1972, things might not be as bad as they seem :-]

Or it may mean that the current situation isn't just some short-term fluke
that we can weather, but a serious long-standing problem that will be even
more difficult to correct because of its pervasiveness.


Thomas G. Lammers

Classification, Nomenclature, Phylogeny and Biogeography
of the Campanulaceae, s. lat.

Department of Botany
Field Museum of Natural History
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