[Taxacom] A New Award for Insect Taxonomy - J O Westwood Medal
Neal Evenhuis
neale at bishopmuseum.org
Wed Nov 1 13:03:31 CST 2006
At 12:29 PM +0000 11/1/06, Frank Krell wrote:
>A New Award for Insect Taxonomy - J O Westwood Medal
>
>In response to the urgent need to expand the research effort in
>insect taxonomy and to encourage monographic revisionary work, the
>Department of Entomology of the Natural History Museum, and the
>Royal Entomological Society, plan to launch a new joint award for
>excellence in insect taxonomy. A medal will be awarded biennially
>for the best comprehensive taxonomic work on a group of insects or
>related arthropods (including terrestrial and freshwater hexapods,
>myriapods, arachnids and their relatives), typically a taxonomic
>revision or monograph, as judged by an independent, international
>panel of experts and agreed by representatives of the two
>organisations. The award of this medal will recognise only the
>highest standards in descriptive taxonomy.
Frank:
There doesn't seem to be a time restriction. Can we then propose the
medal for someone who did rewardable work 100 or more years ago? I'd
nominate Linnaeus for the first award. Hard to beat his getting 100%
of the names he knew correct. And we're all following his system ...
er ... sorry phylocodists ... "almost" all following his system...
... Oh... but then he wouldn't be able to be there to give a presentation ....
;-)
--Neal
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