[Taxacom] Ochterlony Valley

[Doug Yanega]

>Hi Michael,
>        I don't have a specific answer to the question, but I think that
>finding the answer might be solved by searching for alternate
>spellings---especially Ouchterlony (instead of Ochterlony) and perhaps
>Gudalur instead of Gundalur.  For instance I found the following quote
>using such alternate spellings:
>"Gudalur is much sheltered from the south-west by the spurs on the
>northern boundary of the Ouchterlony Valley."

It's precisely for this reason that one of my 
most heavily-used bookmarks is for the Fuzzy 
Gazetteer

http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/

Even when people misspell place names on labels 
(as is very, very common), this website is rather 
good at finding them. In this case, no names 
similar to "Ochterlony" appear in India, but 
"Gudalur" is the #1 result for "Gundalur", and 
there are actually three of them out of 2 8  
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Peace,
-- 

Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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