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Biology International Special Issue No. 34 (1997)
arenas. It also has to involve the producers and the consumers of the scientific
names of organisms.
My vision is for a system of the future which will combine the maximum of
scientific freedom with optimal utility and simplicity. To attain this goal may
involve some near-misses, but 1 believe we have a target worthy of a strike,
and that Our approach should be one of seeking solutions and not only of
identi@ing problems. 1 encourage you to approach this issue in that light.
Acknowledgements
1 am indebted to Dr D.H. Nicolson for drawing to my attention the quoted
sentence from De Candolle's Lois and its translation, and to Dr P.M. Kirk for
access to the first results of the inter-Code homonym analysis undertaken in
collaboration with BIOSIS.
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