Gillett's Checkerspot

[Mark Walker]

Ron wrote:

<some stuff>


> am not personally worked up. I am pragmatically employing truth in a
> taunting manner to see if I can smoke out the... This is too long.

You splitter you.

Mark Walker
Mt. Kisko, NY

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenelm Philip" <fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu>
> To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:28 AM
> Subject: Gillett's Checkerspot
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> >
> > > How can adding an *e* to Gillett be somehow correct?
> >
> > Neither Kondla nor I was proposing any such thing, nor said 
> anything that
> > would lead someone who read the postings to think we were. 
> As far as it
> > appears from available data, the correct English name is Gillett's
> > Checkerspot--unless someone can show that Barnes actually named the
> > species after someone named Gillette, which seems improbable because
> > the final 'e' would have then appeared within the scientific name.
> >
> > My own ruminations on the ICZN are not relevant to the English
> > name.
> >
> > It is true that NABA prefers not to use patronymic English names,
> > and also (from a phone conversation with Glassberg) prefers 
> that English
> > names not be tightly linked to scientific names (allowing 
> them, in theory,
> > to be 'more stable' than scientific names). But I doubt 
> NABA would use
> > that reasoning to justify _misspelling_ the English name...  :-)
> >
> > Ken Philip
> > fnkwp at uaf.edu
> >
> >
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