[PCA] NEWS: Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Aug 11 10:24:36 CDT 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?_r=1&ref=science
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Published: August 10, 2009
One spring when I was a graduate student, I would go each Monday down into
the bowels of the entomology building. There I would meet Prof. Jack
Franclemont, an elderly gentleman always with little dog in tow, to be
tutored in the ordering and naming of life -- the science of taxonomy.
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