>
> Michael(s),
>
> (...)
> >Even more nonsense.
> >
> >Remember all the laymen contributing to the field of botany. (as
> >mentioned earlier)
>
> Remember all the laymen (and -alas!- also professionals) supplying us with
> loads of nomina nuda each year.
Well, isn't each nomina nuda worth a scientific paper to deny it's
validity and thus promoting scientific careers. :-)
Just imagine the access to plants would be restricted to the true
followers of science (with the respective honours from their in-
stitutes) and the earlier mentioned nomenclatural codex. There would not
be any dispute about the validity of botanical names. They would
be all correct. :-)
To prevent that hundreds if not thousands of botanical naming engi-
neers become unemployed I am strongly opposed that access to unnamed
plants (i.e. wild plants) should be restricted by "permissions". :-)
>
> Some knowledge about the plants and their their proper naming (and respect
> for the existing rules and names, i.e. for the rest of the world) would
> certainly not do any harm here. This does not mean all botanists (= all
> persons involved in the scientific study of plants, irrespective of
> profession) must have some degree (if you want some, just buy it! ;-)).
Where ?
>
> On the other hand (especially Michael C.) you know yourself that present
> practice in legislation (remember CITES!) and permits is too far from the
> ideal to work satisfactorily even for purely scientific research.
Ok. Lets shed some light on this process. So how does it work if I want
to collect some few plants from central Celebes and I want to take them
back home into my hood to make generally accessible to the public (for
a small fee to cover some of my expenses). Does it help if I have
scientific background ?
>
> IMHO, the goal is to enable all interested people to give "their" plants
> valid names. As things stand now, the code +/- gives the appropriate hints.
> We just have to convince the "nomenclatural nudists" that they are not too
> far from the club of "insiders", and that it is not at all an impossible
> thing to publish a protologue if necessary. Well, this is what I have been
> trying for some time now on this list.
>
> Kind regards
> Jan
>
>
>
..Michael
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