Dear Carole,

We should really examine the text of the description (now that we're
up-to-pace with the Code) before we can pass judgement on the
"justification" for the Oliva edwardsi [sic] emendation.  Olsson was
anything but a "shocking" latinist, but he might have never met Corinne and
thought colonels didn't occur in the female form.  Anybody got the original
description?  Paul Drez??

Harry


At 04:48 PM 1/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Regarding mistaken genders, Olsson named a fossil olive for Corinne Edwards
>and named it Oliva edwardsi. Ed Petuch recently changed the spelling to
>edwardsae to reflect that Corinne was a lady and rectify the literature.
>  Carole M

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