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My new e-mail: francisco@uesc.br Em (18:19:42), paleonet@nhm.ac.uk escreveu: >Hi James, > >Thanks for that piece of information, though, I am more amused than worried. >Colleagues may correct me but I would think, the I of the CZN stands for >independence. Politicians cannot force the international scientific >community to obey their political rules. They could go as far as oppressing >our Turkish colleagues, though, which would be bad enough. > >Cheers, > >Niko > >> To all Paleonetters, >> >> The BBC News website has an interesting article today (8 March 2005) about >> the government of Turkey wanting to change the Latin species names of some >> living organisms to remove references to Kurdistan & Armenia for political >> purposes. >> >> An intriguing (and unique?) violation of ICZN rules! Does anyone know of >> other examples of this sort of thing? >> >> The article can be found at the following web address: >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4328285.stm >> >> >> Best, >> >> James St. John >> >> stjohn.2@osu.edu >> _______________________________________ >> >> James St. John >> Founders Hall 156A >> 1179 University Drive >> Ohio State University at Newark >> Newark, Ohio 43055 USA >> __________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >-- >--- >ADDRESS: Dept. de Geologia/Unitat Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de >Barcelona, Campus, >Edifici Cs, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalunya, SPAIN >--- >Tel xx34-93-581-1464/Fax -1263 >--- >n.malchus@gmx.net (admits larger attachments) >nikolaus.malchus@uab.es (max. 2MB for attachments) >--- > >----------
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