[Taxacom] Sale: immortal names

[John Grehan]

It would seem that naming for money is constrained by the level of
independence one has from an employer. Presumably university researchers
who are able to earn additional money through books, for example, would
have no such problem. Otherwise it would appear that the option is limited
to those who are technically amateurs - assuming the named specimen is not
from an institution such as a museum that 'owned' the specimen (presuming
that this entitled them to any proceeds - wonder if that is a caveat on any
loan forms?) - and assuming that the receiving institution is willing to
accept the specimen without some of the proceeds.

John Grehan

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Paul van Rijckevorsel <dipteryx at freeler.nl>
wrote:

> 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
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