[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 99, Issue 1

[Gary Anweiler]

Re: selling type material brings to mind a line from Bob Dylan,  who spoke 
many truths.... "the pump don't work cause the vandals stole the 
handle."\egads!
Gary

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Today's Topics:

   1. Zoological Nomenclature course - deadline approaching
      ('Isa.Vandevelde at naturalsciences.be')
   2. sale of type specimens (John Grehan)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:36:17 +0200
From: 'Isa.Vandevelde at naturalsciences.be'
<Isa.Vandevelde at naturalsciences.be>
Subject: [Taxacom] Zoological Nomenclature course - deadline
approaching
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Dear all,

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The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) continues to provide 
high-quality training to future taxonomists.

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One of the upcoming courses ?(4th edition since the start of DEST):

"Zoological Nomenclature" course, 22-26 September 2014, Mus?um national 
d'Histoire naturelle - Paris, training provider: Prof. Dr Alain Dubois.

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?Deadline for registration is approaching: 16 June 2014.

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The course is ideal for early career or future taxonomists who want to learn 
more about the international code of zoological nomenclature and the 
relationship between phylogeny, taxonomy and nomenclature.

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Info and registration at:

http://www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/zoological-nomenclature-3

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Courses are open to participants from both inside and outside of Europe.

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With kind regards,

Isabella

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Dr Isabella Van de Velde

Dr Hendrik Gheerardyn

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DEST Training

www.taxonomytraining.eu

dest-training at naturalsciences.be

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussel

Tel: 32 2 627 43 34 (336)

http://www.naturalsciences.be

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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:01:38 +1200
From: John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>
Subject: [Taxacom] sale of type specimens
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I would be interested to know from the code buffs on the list what the
zoological code says, if anything, about the commercial sale of type
specimens. I am curious as I came across an eBay example of a paratype
being sold (I suspect it is from a private collection because there were
many paratypes assigned for private collection specimens).

The fact (assuming the claim is true) that the specimen is a paratype seems
to be used as a justification for a high bidding price. It would seem that
there would be a lot of room for fraudulent sales if the type label is
printed rather than handwritten.

John Grehan


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