[leps-talk] RE: Temporal stability vs taxonomic something-or other

[Chris J. Durden]

Oh. I see. You could have fooled me. I don't think he is doing a very good 
job of it.
............Chris

At 10:22 AM 5/9/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Glassberg is trying very hard.  That is why his justification for doing
>anything is tied so closely to his vision of "conservative" taxonomy.
>
>Barb
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris J. Durden [mailto:drdn at mail.utexas.edu]
>Sent: May 9, 2002 10:19 AM
>To: tiLS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com
>Cc: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
>Subject: [leps-talk] RE: Temporal stability vs taxonomic something-or
>other
>
>
>At 10:02 AM 5/9/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >That is no problem with me.  I use many anglicized names for the
>butterflies
> >I teach.  From Egleis Fritillary to Nastes Sulphur.  It helps bridge the
> >gap.
> >
> >But I am very happy that many of the blues which we are familiar with are
> >not tied tightly to scientific names.  I have a heck of a time each time I
> >get a message from Norbert.  It seems that another has been changed.
>
>
>
> >But as some have proposed trying to duplicate the taxonomy of all the
> >butterflies with common names matching scientific names is really a
>problem.
>
>Who did that? When? Where?
>..........Chris
>
> >Barb



 
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