[Taxacom] New species of the future

[Michael Heads]

'Principle 6. Scientific names are treated as Latin...', so Latin is still
pretty important in current nomenclature.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> Of all the issues we could be discussing regarding this work, it's the
> Latin...!? Seriously? This feels like a sketch from Monty Python:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
>
> Regards
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> Rod
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