people against the use of new in science

[Thomas Lammers]

At 03:45 PM 10/3/00 +0200, you wrote:

>collecting biblio on Coccoidea a clear statement against the rules of
>The Code (Zoological) was found into a paper by Goidanich.
>I wonder if there are others of such statement against the new
>("sensu latu": the use of microscope, of computers and so on) made by
>other "well known" scientists.

Botanist Carl Skottsberg refused to take up the name required by the
Botanical Code, Clermontia clermontioides (Gaudich.) A. Heller, because it
was illogical.  He took up the junior synonym C. gaudichaudii Hillebr.,
commenting in a footnote "No rule shall make me use a name of this kind."
(Acta Horti Gothoburgensis 15: 494. 1944).


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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