[Taxacom] Sale: immortal names

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

I agree with Ken. However, I still have Marc van Roosmalen
on my mind, who spent considerable time in prison. Part of 
the charges were that he had offered to name species after 
whoever would donate money to a particular charity.

The reasoning ran something like this: he was in government
employ when he discovered those species, and therefor the
right to name those species was government property. Offering
to sell governement property was stealing from the government, 
so ...

Paul

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Kinman" <kinman at hotmail.com>
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Sale: immortal names


> Personally I don't oppose raising funds by selling honorific names----if the funds go to a good cause (especially if it helps fund future scientific work in this time of shrinking budgets).  It would certainly be preferable to species names that raise no money at all and are honorific for less noble reasons----such as naming a species for a rock band because they happened to be listening to that rock band's music when they discovered the new species.  A scientific donor certainly deserves being honored more than someone's favorite rock band.                          --------------Ken