Social Butterfly + another angle on Common names

[Kenelm Philip]

	Doug Dawn said:

> Once upon a time before the age of communication, internet and photo-
> graphy and during longer publication cycles, different scientists could
> have been in a situation where they published their names for the same
> organism or genus.

That can still happen, even in these enlightened days. There have even
been some classic cases of _accidental_ appropriation and publication
of someone else's species name. Thus the working rule of some taxonomists:
never tell anyone else what your proposed new name is until after it's
published.

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu