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Extremely simple and efficient though the new Trimeral
System may be, we cannot disguise from ourselves the fact
that a wide gap yawns between mere exposition and actual
application. What steps are there to take? What obstacles
might be encountered?
Presumably the first step would be to organize a worldwide
think-tank of specialists from ALL the biological disciplines
— none left out — including people from Asia and Africa,
not just from the Western World, but all willing to undertake
the great change-over. May we see the advent of this
dream in the coming BioCode Symposium, planned in
Greece for the year 2002? Surely the existence of INTERNET
makes such an undertaking theoretically feasible and
exchange of ideas, if not task division, fast and efficient.
Whatever the way of launching the ship, that Body should
absolutely include accomplished philologists, for running a
fine comb through the enormous amount of latinized names,
in order to establish their etymological meanings — or their
lack of such. These people know how to say it, where
biologists know what to say ...
Finally, with (about) all the old names reframed or replaced
by better ones, and the taxon structures reconsidered,
expanded, consolidated, unified, there looms the longwinded
labour of painstakingly feeding all these data into
the Central Databank mentioned at the beginning. Or,
perhaps more probably, this compilation might progress
parallel to the drafts submitted and... agreed upon by some
majority of participants.