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- From: dr@ducvax.auburn.edu
- Subject: Re: A big hello
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:17:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.232652.12115@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis) writes:
- > In article <921216125757.MIN-LNDAa16551.bionet-news@uk.ac.daresbury> you wrote:
- > : [...]
- > : I'd be interested in such a discussion; my current interest would be
- > : taxonomic in nature. 'Fraid I can't make any contribution to such a
- > : discussion at this time, for convoluted reasons, best alluded to by my
- > : post, "Request: Recruiting/Luring Biologists to the Nets", in sci.bio
- > : and bionet.general. That same post would also serve as a belated way
- > : to introduce myself [...]
- > [...]
- > The essence of Usenet, for me, is the informal contact we make with
- > each other by posting to a group such as this. I began the discussions
- > on bionet.plants by asking people to introduce themselves and describe
- > their area of interest.
- >
- > So, tell us something about your interest in heavy metals and taxonomy?
-
- This past term, I had the good fortune to participate in the Advanced
- Systematic Botany course (the other student-participants are pursuing
- advanced degrees; I am classified as "staff" and am not currently
- pursuing a degree). This is a directed readings course; each participant
- was responsible for presenting approximately 3 classic systematic papers
- per week (ie. Duke Method).
-
- A term paper was also required; my topic was "Chemotaxonomy of Astragalus".
- As the completion of this paper did not impact the students, this became
- one of the jettisoned projects when other commitments arose. The topic
- is still of interest on its own merits (and it would not harm me to prove
- to myself that I can [still] write a term paper), as are most issues of
- taxonomy. My botanical interests tend to be focused in terms of ecology
- and evolution, as per Dobzhansky's oft-quoted observation.
-
- I am also interested in the mathematical modeling of biological systems,
- altho my decade-long hiatus (aka work) means that I am a *very* long way
- from understanding that again (what notebooks I have left are barely
- legible in an all-too-familiar handwriting, and mostly consist of copious
- incomprehensible notes occasionally peppered with a meant-to-be-helpful
- elucidation/comment: "Yes, Obviously! See also <**indecipherable**>.").
-
- "I am happy and perplexed as a cat in a clam bucket." - John Steinbeck
-
- D.R.
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