Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
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The scientific names of plants and animals ideally remain                  stable in usage over the years, and thus serve as efficient and                 effective indexing devices for knowledge of the biological world.               Disputes do arise from time to time, but these are settled                      largely through the application of the so-called "type" method,                 the identification of a particular specimen in a museum                         collection as the type of a particular name, for each and every                 published scientific name.   Question or confusion about the                    applicability of a name can thus be resolved by reference to an                 actual specimen.  For the majority of Carl Linnaeus's 8,900 named               species and varieties of plants, unfortunately, there are no                    clearly fixed type specimens, despite the importance accorded                   Linnaeus's publications as the universal starting-point for                     scientific naming of plant and animal species.                                       The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project is designed to                provide a thorough assessment of the typification (assignment of                type specimens) of all of the plant names published by Linnaeus                 (1707-1778).  Drs. Porter Lowry and James Reveal and a post-                    doctoral associate will work with Dr. Charles Jarvis of the                     British Museum (Natural History) where Linnaeus's collections and               library now reside.  The results will be published in an                        annotated catalogue that will also contain detailed taxonomic                   notes and the complete citation of all relevant nomenclatural                   literature.  Results will also be incorporated into computer                    databases maintained for the Flora North America project and                    other floristic enterprises.  This will establish a basis for the               consistent and stable application of these important and widely                 used plant names, many of which apply to crop plants and other                  economically significant species, and will serve as an essential                reference for all botanists who must deal with Linnaean species                 names.
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