naming expeditions

[Prof. Dov Por]

I fully agree with the dangers of the  "new", but  institutionalised selling
of species names.  Instead, and in order still to obtain soft money from
patrons, I suggest to return to an old practice of naming expeditions after
patrons, like for instance "The Percy-Sladen Expedition". This was the name
of a trust fund.  To finance a collecting trip  can give to the patron a
title that is everlasting . For instance: " The Collembola" of the XXXX
Expedition to  Ruritania" .  This would be necessarily more  money and
better used. There will be no problems of hasty and irresponsible naming and
no cluttering of the lists of synonyms.
Dov Por
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Prof.Francis Dov Por
Department of Evolution,Systematics and Ecology
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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