Re: Palaeontological nomenclature

[(Paul Jeffery) <paj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 94 00:36:41 -0600,
  <hrlane@amoco.com> writes:

>Item Subject: Text_1
>   For those of us who must work daily with scientists outside 
>paleontology and biology, and with engineers, Linnean nomenclature is 
>a problem.  The vissicitudes of our nomenclature, as allowed in the 
code, is debilitating to our science and befuddling to our colleagues. 

Are not the vissicitudes (sic) of the nomenclature of scientists outside 
palaeo/bio a tiny bit befuddling to us palaeontologists and biologists ?   
Have you ever tried to make sense of the concepts familiar to physicists or 
pure-mathematicians as explained by a learned worthy of that persuasion ?  
Perhaps Dr. Lane finds this easily comprehensible, but I suspect is in a 
minority if so.

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