vanishing taxonomists

[Matt Yoder]

Christoffer Schander wrote:
>

>
> These databases are great, but incomplete. I searched the ETI
> database for 50 taxonomists working on various groups (Birds,
> Mammals, Fish, Molluscs, Polychaetes, Oligochaetes, Nemerteans,
> Insects, Crustaceans, Meiofauna). 15 were in the database 35 were
> not. I did the same thing with the TRED for 50 American zoologists
> and only 14 were listed. The TRED database can not be searched using
> Netscape since you will get a CGI script error. If anybody is going
> to use TRED you will have to use Internet Explorer, like it or not.
>

Works fine for me with netscape, has for some time, try tweaking your
settings.

For a resource that has been out for some very brief time %30 is not bad
(watch it quickly eclipse the 1961 publication with 9000
taxonomists...in a much more useable fashion as well).

Give it time, in two more generations any serious taxonomist will be in
there or a in a similar on-line resource.

Matt