[Taxacom] Code enquiry

[Sean Edwards]

Ah --- thanks. I guess I was only countering the earlier argument of durvillae because "Urville" is feminine (like villa), which presumably is then also irrelevant?

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Sean Edwards, Thursley, UK
email: sean.r.edwards at btinternet.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Thomas G. Lammers 
  To: Sean Edwards ; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Code enquiry


  At 10:34 AM 11/12/2009, Sean Edwards wrote:

    And surely, although Urville might be feminine, I would be the last to suggest that the man himself was anything other than male, and should be treated as such?
  I think it's traditional (recommended? required?) that honorific generic names are always feminine.  I think it reflects of the gender of the "planta" than on the honoree.

  Thomas G. Lammers