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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: bionet.plants
- Subject: Re: Taxonomists: charging into oblivion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210646.10167@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:06:43 -0600
- References: <1993Jan25.000208.15251@massey.ac.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan25.000208.15251@massey.ac.nz>, COKelly@massey.ac.nz (C.J. O'Kelly) writes:
- >
- > Re: Charging fees for taxonomic services.
- >
- > Dammit be careful out there!!!
- >
- > Some years ago, the Botany Division of New Zealand's Division of
- > Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) came to a similar conclusion,
- > that the day of free taxonomic IDs was at an end. Hence they began
- > charging.
- >
- > From that day these guys were dead. ...
-
- Sorry to hear about NZ taxonomy... especially for a place with
- so many fascinating species.
-
- I'm the curator of an underfunded, underappreciated, and sometimes
- overused, small herbarium. I do IDs gratis, but I've been known
- to drop hints to people who DO have $$$ that the herbarium could
- use some label paper, or a new flora or ...
-
- And yes, the people who need ID's take the hint about 50% of the time.
-
- Kay Klier Biology Dept UNI
-