paleonet Ellis and Messina bibliography pages

[John Van Couvering <vanc@xxxxxxxx>]

Andy - that information is in the bibliography pages at the front of each 
Catalogue volume. These pages have not been available on the internet, as 
you point out. Taken together they represent a pretty fair resource - we 
estimate between 12,000 and 15,000 citations.  Volume 30 of the original 
Catalogue, for example, which was intended to be the stopping point (we're 
working on v. 105 at present!), contains 270 pages of citations to the 
works processed for vols. 1-29.  Including everything d'Orbigny published.

It would be relatively easy to scan all the bibliography pages but a 
back-breaker to OCR them and proof them, so that they could be searchable, 
downloadable data -- at least with current OCR technology. As an 
alternative back-breaker, we could manually prepare a simple 
senior-author-and-date index to the entries on the scanned pages, so that 
one could at least find the page to look at. I can post the scans as PDF 
files and anyone is free to download a stack and start in.

John Van Couvering

At 10:10 AM 1/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Unfortunately (unless I have missed something) the Ellis & Messina online 
>catalogue does not include full bibliographic references (i.e. total page 
>numbers) but only the page numbers for the species citation. This is the 
>only disadvantage the online version has over the paper-based version.
>
>Andy