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Based on the title, this is probably what I'm after.  Malakozoologishe
Blatter is, in large part at least, scanned in Google Books, so I can
probably find it as long as the particular pages weren't screwed up.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Maassen, W.J.M.
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> David
>
> Hazay wrote in 1883 a publication: Die Nouvelle Ecole beleuchtet durch Dr.Georg Servain's Histoire Malacologique du Lac Balaton. It is published in: Malakozoologische Blätter, Neue Folge, vol. 6: 179-197.
>
> regards
>
> W.J.M.Maassen
>
> ________________________________
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> Van: Conchologists List namens David Campbell
> Verzonden: di 3-2-2009 21:32
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: [CONCH-L] Help finding Hazay paper on European freshwater mollusks
>
>
>
> I am trying to find a paper written between 1881 and 1905 by Hazay on
> Hungarian (and possibly other central European) freshwater mollusks;
> he probably would have mentioned land snails, too.  Unfortunately, I
> don't have better bibliographic information than that.
>
> In the late 1800's to early 1900's, a group of malacologists known as
> the "Nouvelle Ecole" (acute accent should be on the first E of Ecole)
> named every variation in nonmarine mollusks that they found.  This
> resulted in huge lists of synonyms.  However, occasionally a
> previously undescribed form would get a name, too.  Thus, it is
> necessary when dealing with one of the faunas they treated to try to
> identify their taxa.
>
> Servain (1881) named numerous genera and species in a paper on Lake
> Balaton, in Hungary, almost all of them of doubtful biological value.
> He did not always identify type species of the genera.  Although in
> many cases Nouvelle Ecole genera were derived from species names, they
> were not usually tautonymous, so a later revisor could disregard the
> recommendation in the Code (if the Code existed at the time of the
> revisor) and select a type other than the obvious choice.
>
> Dall (1905, Harriman Alaska Expedition) reviewed lymnaeids generally.
> He cited Hazay as an authority for disregarding Servain's taxa as mere
> ecophenotypic variation.  Baker (1911) essentially quotes Dall on the
> subject.  However, neither bothered to give a citation for Hazay.  I
> want to know if Hazay designated type species, or if he just said that
> Servain's taxa should be ignored, or what.  Does anyone have an idea
> on the reference or a good bibliography of Central European mollusk
> publications from 1881 to 1905 or other clues?  There are a few Hazay
> papers available in Malakolozoologishe Blatter on Google Books, but I
> haven't tracked down a Servain reference in them yet (not helped by my
> rather limited knowledge of German, and there's always the possibiity
> that he did not explicitly mention Servain by name but simply made
> passing derogatory comments-sentiments for or against the Nouvelle
> Ecole tended to be strong).
>
> Kruglov and Starobogatov give later type designations, but they might
> have overlooked something early.
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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University of Alabama
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