Hello, 2003-12-17T11:06:32Z Curtis Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 2003-12-16 15:27 Peter Kirk wrote: >> I'm no expert on this... > I am. :-) >> but I thought that species could be transferred >> from genus to genus as knowledge advances. > As John pointed out, the epithet stays the same. >> And presumably obvious >> spelling mistakes are corrected (contrast "FHTORA" in U+1D0C5), or are >> you saying that if the first publication had "Brontosuarus" as a typo >> this error would remain for ever? > There are errors and then there are errors. Some are correctable, some > are not, and botanists and zoologists have different rules about this. > An example that's not entirely OT: There was a Russian physician with > the last name Эшшолц - a "cyrillicization" of his German family name He was Эшшольц actually. You forgot the "soft sign". (I'm not sure everyone will see the name - the editor replaced the encoding with windows-1251, and there's no UTF-8 support). Regards, -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
