Taxacom: Taxacom Digest, Vol 206, Issue 38

Fri Jun 30 12:17:20 CDT 2023

Dear all,

As many of you know, the Paris Museum is facing a tragedy similar to that
of the London Museum, with not only the moving of the collections to Dijon
(more than 2 hours from Paris) but also the destruction of the libraries
specialised on taxa (the working libraries of taxonomists) and the physical
destruction of books, periodicals and reprints accumulated for 250 years.

See the petition:

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Best wishes,

Alain
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Professeur Émérite Alain Dubois
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) - UMR 7205
Reptiles & Amphibiens
CP 30
25 rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
France

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Chief Editor, Bionomina
Nomenclature Editor, Zootaxa
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“La culture ce n’est pas avoir le cerveau farci de dates, de noms ou de
chiffres, c’est la qualité du jugement, l’exigence logique, l’appétit de la
preuve, la notion de la complexité des choses et de l’arduité des
problèmes. C’est l’habitude du doute, le discernement dans la méfiance, la
modestie d’opinion, la patience d’ignorer, la certitude qu’on n’a jamais
tout le vrai en partage; c’est avoir l’esprit ferme sans l’avoir rigide,
c’est être armé contre le flou et aussi contre la fausse précision, c’est
refuser tous les fanatismes et jusqu’à ceux qui s’autorisent de la raison;
c’est suspecter les dogmatismes officiels mais sans profit pour les
charlatans, c’est révérer le génie mais sans en faire une idole, c’est
toujours préférer ce qui est à ce qu’on préférerait qui fût.”
(Jean Rostand, Le droit d’être naturaliste, 1963).
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Alain Dubois.* Jean** Rostand, un biologiste contre le nucléaire.* Berg
international, 2012.
Alain Dubois & Annemarie Ohler. *Evolution, extinctions: le message des
grenouilles.* Le Pommier, 2010.
Alain Dubois, Annemarie Ohler & R. Alexander Pyron. *New concepts and
methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified
by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia).* Megataxa,
Nr. 5, 2021.
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>    1. Natural history museums in decline (Richard Zander)
>    2. Colonialism and racism in taxonomy (Richard Zander)
>    3. Re: Natural history museums in decline (Frederick W. Schueler)
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:59:05 +0000
> From: Richard Zander <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
> To: 'taxacom' <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: Taxacom: Natural history museums in decline
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> An interesting article on the increasing irrelevance of natural history
> museums to government is at:
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biotaxa.org%2Fmegataxa%2Farticle%2Fview%2Fmegataxa.7.1.2&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C6d56eb3b361f4d19ac3e08db798df3cf%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638237424303223178%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tTn4SUxvKlmmEA07BDgCwWpPrmOnNJJRaEVmMhzQQc4%3D&reserved=0
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> Anything like this happening at your institutions?
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> Richard H. Zander
> Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Blvd. - St. Louis - Missouri - 63110
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:33:20 +0000
> From: Richard Zander <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
> To: 'taxacom' <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: Taxacom: Colonialism and racism in taxonomy
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> An interesting article that should be read by all who have contributed to
> the discussions on taxonomic names and political correctness is:
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> The author (I guess east Indian ancestry from his/er name, gulp) allows
> that some changes are advisable, but for the most part, "What doesn't kill
> you makes you stronger." Yeah, read it.
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> Richard H. Zander
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:55:03 -0300
> From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb at istar.ca>
> To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: Taxacom: Natural history museums in decline
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> On 30-Jun-23 10:59 a.m., Richard Zander via Taxacom wrote:
> > An interesting article on the increasing irrelevance of natural history
> museums to government is at:
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> > Anything like this happening at your institutions?
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> * here's a verse from an autobiographical song from 1986:
>
> I remember back six years ago
> This free-lance life we chose.
> How every day the news would say
> Some museum was going to close.
> Oh, I could have tried to get a job,
> But I?m not one of those.
> I like being free, and that makes me
> An idiot, I suppose.
>
> The hypothesis has been expressed that commercial governments supported
> museums because natural history knowledge could promote economic growth,
> but that in the 1970s when museums began to put out lists of
> rare-&-endangered species which would require protection, this was seen
> as inhibiting economic exploitation of habitats, and funding was
> accordingly cut back.
>
> I've tootled for some decades that if humanity is to live in
> co-operative understanding of their territory, then natural history
> museums are the primary institutions of sovereignty, since they are
> where we know our relatives and neighbours, but this isn't an idea that
> has been taken up by others.
>
> fred.
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