flaming Systematics, ochlospecies, and research

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

I would like to add that "Wolffia brasiliensis" gives several hits with
Altavista.
It is a species of Lemnaceae.
Any Lemnaceae specialists in this list?


On (         Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:41:47 -0700),         "Frederick W. Schueler"
<bckcdb at ISTAR.CA> wrote:


>Fred Rickson wrote:
>>
>> This thread brings up something we have all seen on this and other
>> scientific groups... " Hi, I am going to do a project on taxa
>> A, H, and Q...please tell me what is known about these organisms as I
>> can't find anything." Whatever happened to initial scientific
>> knowledge of something, gleaned from the literature, becoming an
>> hypothesis,and perhaps the solving of a real problem by
>> the process of experimentation or sampling, ensues?
>
>* well, for sure TAXACOM isn't the peer reviewed literature. Isn't the
>function of an e-mail list supposed to be the low cost of soliciting and
>providing information in just this way (compared, for example, with
>arranging and waiting for interlibrary loans of rare symposium volumes),
>with the others on the list benefitting from the exchange by seeing what
>others are asking about and what the answers are? And everybody leaning
>pretty heavily on the DELETE key for threads they aren't interested in?
>
>fred schueler
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