On this subject:
    How do they plan to weed out synonyms? Or do they?
And are they planning yearly suplements to account for new discoveries and new synonyms?
    Actually, it's a pretty good idea. Tie it all together. Sort of like Einstein's serch for the Unified Theory of damn near everything.
     Art
>
> From: Peter Egerton <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/03/01 Mon PM 05:13:03 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: all known species in the world
>
>
> Isn't 1.75 million a little low?
>
>
> At 08:26 AM 01/03/2004, you wrote:
> >FYI.  From Sigma Xi Science News, 1 March 2004
> >
> >SCIENTISTS STRIVE TO CREATE THE BOOK OF LIFE
> >from The Toronto Globe and Mail
> >
> >Scientists around the world have begun an enormous enumeration effort last
> >attempted by Noah, the Bible's biological census-taker.
> >
> >If all goes according to plan, by 2011 all the world's 1.75 million known
> >species of plants, animals, bacteria, viruses etc. will be listed on easily
> >available websites. While the project, somewhat grandiloquently known as
> >the Catalogue of Life, will initially simply record the scientific names of
> >Earth's known organisms, those involved see the project as part of a larger
> >effort to create the Internet's official index for every living thing.
> >
> >"Eventually we will have the species' distribution, images of it, genetic
> >information, other names it is called by, common names used in different
> >languages, life cycle information, and more," says Pamela Harling, a
> >spokeswoman for the England-based Species 2000, which is one of the
> >participating agencies in the organization of the Catalogue of Life.
> >http://snipurl.com/4t4n
> >
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