Holotype fragment (botany)

[Richard.Zander at MOBOT.ORG]

The proposals on electronic publishing were clobbered at the Vienna
botanical nomenclatural meetings, I hear, and probably won't be proposed
again by a special committee, anyway, as in the last two congresses, for a
long time (thus a moratorium).

Given that electronic publication is now becoming an expected adjunct to
hardcopy publication, I think a natural evolution towards publication of new
names solely electronically is in progress, and we need only wait a few
years until scientific journals phase out their hardcopy.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul van Rijckevorsel [mailto:dipteryx at FREELER.NL]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:32 AM
To: TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
Subject: Re: [TAXACOM] Holotype fragment (botany)


From: <Richard.Zander at MOBOT.ORG>
> I kind of like one colleague's suggestion that a moratorium be placed on
> changing codes of nomenclature for 20 years or so.

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Does that include the provisions on electronic publishing?
Paul