[Nhcoll-l] Last Call

[Christopher Kemp]

Hi Friends,

You've all been super helpful in the past as I've worked on my book about
species with long shelf lives. I now have examples of mammals, fish, birds,
frogs, salamanders, beetles, giant flies, gallwasps, crabs, seadragons,
nematodes, fossils, a mineral, and all sorts of other species that waited
75, or 100, or 150 years or more in collections to be described. I'm
including 30 species, and I'm currently at 27. So this is a last call! I
need three more. Don't send me examples you've sent me before if you're
aware of the project, because I'll have already checked them out in the
past. But send me anything new! The criteria are: recently described (in
the last 10 years) after a long time in a collections (at least 50 years or
longer). I've excluded some examples because they simply don't seem all
that interesting, and others because, well, if I already have a bat story I
don't can't include another one. But I feel like to be complete I need a
plant. I don't have an example. I had a few, but they don't seem very
compelling. Like this: a plant that looks like a bunch of other plants
isn't any of those plants. I need a more superlative story than that. So,
consider this the last call. Plants! But anything else too. Maybe some
microscopic examples, or lichens, or something weird I haven't thought of?
I don't know. I'll welcome anything I haven't seen before! I just need 3
examples!

All bst,

--ck

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