Hi Les,
I beg to differ on your assessment of this book. In fact it was well
proofed. A little known fact is that after Tucker submitted dozens
of corrections to the publisher that were submitted by numerous
knowledgeable people whom Tucker asked to proof-read the text. The
publisher decided to either inadvertently overlook or just plain-out
ignored many of those changes...it is the only reason incorrect
nomeclature and reversal of a few pictures of about 1% of the book
squeaked through to the final. But certainly not notoriously
"unproofed". A corrections list did circulate sometime back. I am
still in possession of a copy of my proof of the book that Tucker
sent to the publisher, yet more than half of those corrections were
never included. We do need to give Tucker the benefit of the doubt
since he is no longer with us to defend himself.
Regards,
Rich
www.worldwideconchology.com
At 08:25 AM 7/21/2014, you wrote:
>"Compendium of Landshells" is notoriously "un-proofed".
>
>Les
>
>
>From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Guido Poppe
>Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 5:52 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Cyclophorus daraganicus or daranganicus?
>
>Thanks Harry,
>
>just double checked our databases. The one who used "daranganicus" was
>Abbott in the Compendium of landshells. Now cleared.
>
>Guido
>
>
>On Jul 7, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Harry Lee wrote:
>
>Dear Phil and John,
>
>Maybe Hidalgo didn't proof that index, Earlier, in the original description,
>there was only one "n" in the specific epithet, to wit:
>http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54226#page/76/mode/1up>;
>"daranganicus" is an incorrect subsequent spelling.
>
>The species is named for its type locality, and the original spelling is not
>only rendered correctly in a linguistic sense, it is a correct original
>spelling under the provisions of the Code.
>
>Harry
>
>
>At 05:53 PM 7/6/2014, John Wolff wrote:
>
>The index to Hidalgo vol XIV has it as daranganicus. I believe that came
>from Poppe ages ago.
>
>John
>Lancaster, PA
>
>At 05:33 PM 7/06/14, you wrote:
>
>I am working my way through my shell collection trying to clean up labels
>(etc) with all osrts of interesting dilemmas cropping up.
>
>To begin with, I have two lots of a Cyclophorus from Polillo Island in the
>Philippines, one labeled C. daranganicus Hidalgo, 1888 and the other C.
>daraganicus Hidalgo, 1888.
>Abbott offers one spelling and Parkinson et al offers the other. Is anyone
>able to weigh on the correct name of this Philippine land snail?
>
>On a totally unrelated note, I am looking for a specimen of Achatina
>iredalei. Any leads?
>
>Phil Liff-Grieff
>La Crescenta, CA
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