[Taxacom] (Re)affirming the specimen gold standard

[John Grehan]

Funny how the anti collecting philosophy sticks around. I still remember
the opposition by some students to collecting plants for a herbarium
project in an undergraduate botany course. I sometimes wonder if it?s a
denial of death.



John Grehan


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Kevin Winker <kevin.winker at alaska.edu>wrote:

> Using all available means to get the word out to quickly counter that
> article in *Science* last Friday:
>
>
> http://www.universityofalaskamuseumbirds.org/reaffirming-the-specimen-gold-standard/
>
> Best,
> --
> Kevin Winker
> University of Alaska Museum
> 907 Yukon Drive
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
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