Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Geoffrey Read Verzonden: zo 20-9-2009 0:55 > The abbreviation 'Sm.' for Smith is astoundingly silly. > You don't really do that do you? Oh dear. *** Well, it has something like a century of tradition behind it, although even now that it is an official standard it is not uniformly followed. Paul