With his delight and enthusiasm for biodiversity, Sir David shares some of his favourite encounters with animals. Prof. Fortey explains why scientific names are more than just labels, with stories of trilobites and field adventures.This was a f

F. Christian Thompson and Thomas Pape Systema Dipterorum: Sherborn’s critical influence in getting information control over a megadiverse group

Sep 14th, 2012

The order Diptera (Insecta), flies, is a megadiverse group, representingsome 15% or more of the known species of organisms. Scientific names are tags to concepts (hypotheses), called species, by which we organize our knowledge of biodiversi

Edward Dickinson– Reinforcing the foundations: Filling in the bibliographic gaps in the historical legacy

Sep 6th, 2012

Ornithological nomenclature is based on the bibliographic legacy from Charles Davies Sherborn, working in the Natural History Museum, London, and from Charles Wallace Richmond, working at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Despite

Gordon McOuat: Naming and Necessity: Sherborn’s Context: Cataloguing Nature

Feb 10th, 2012

By the late 19th Century, storms plaguing early Victorian systematics and nomenclature seemed to have abated. Vociferous disputes over radical renaming, the world shaking clash of all-encompassing procrustean systems, struggles over centres

Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer’s Club

Nov 18th, 2011

Charles Davies Sherborn was an indexer. And he followed a long line of indexers. And a longer line of indexers followed him. They/we are all members of ‘The Indexer’s Club’. A club of obsessed individuals who, for some weird reason, find it

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