Date: Fri, 29 May 98 16:58:06 PDT From: "rebecca m." <r.five.m@communityonline.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1862$foo@default> Subject: Re: Why use Latin
There is a little story about how a few years back some folk were trying =
to restore a patch of prairie. They had a bit of a short list as to what=
should be there, but they knew that there had to be more.There was an =
old church in a nearby village and to the church the lads went. There =
amoung the dusty babtismal records were the musings, in Latin, of a Black=
Robe's hobby. Botany.
You will have to blame Linneaus after all, he chose Latin instead of ??? =
In herbariums, the discriptions of plant and location are usually done =
in the tounge of the collector.
Becky
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