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Maybe the misprint issue will become a collector's item! Take care, DG Tim Palmer wrote: > > >I have just received the latest issue of _Palaeontology_ (Vol 40(1)), > >complete with tacky new orangy-reddy coloured jacket. Anyhow, the abstract > >of the paper entitled "Functional significance of the spines of the > >Ordovician lingulate brachiopod _Acanthambonia" by Anthony Wright and Jaak > >Nolvak (p. 113-119), drew my attention. The abstract begins: > > The splendid, cheerful orangy-reddy jacket is in fact Ruby. Or so the > printers tell us. It commorates the fact that this is Volume 40, our Ruby > Volume. Have no fear. Next year we'll be going back to blue. > > >"A giraffid skull and mandible from the early Mid Miocene Kermaria > >Formation at Thymania (Island of Chios, Greece) has enabled revision of the > >genus _Georgiomeryx_. The new specimen is compared with attachment spines, > >supplimenting a pedicle which is functional throughout ontology and > >regarded as anchoring the animal possibly to algal strands above the see > >floor." > > > >Hmm, increase in giraffid neck length as an intertidal phenomenon perhaps?! > > > >This gets my vote for the best introduction to an abstract this year. The > >fact that the first sentence and a bit has been copied from the next > >abstract in the issue is besides the point :-) > > Yes. Our faces are also ruby. But not quite as much as those of the > printers whose error this was (the second proof does not contain the error). > Nevertheless the mistake was our responsibility and we apologise > unreservedly to those people who have been affected. We set (and usually > receive) high standards for the production of Palaeontology, and we assure > all members of the Palaeontological Association and prospective authors that > there will be no compromise on this policy. > > If you would like to join the Pal Ass (membership rates for Students are > about to go DOWN) or to find details of our publications (including the > award-winning Field Guides and the Special Papers in Palaeontology that are > currently in a massive Sale), then visit our Web Site at: > > http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/PalAss/PalAss.html > > Tim Palmer, Treasurer of the Palaeontological Association > 'Probably the best association of palaeontologists in the World...' > Tim Palmer tjp@aber.ac.uk >
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