From Of Sea and Shore Magazine, Vol 10, No 4, Winter 1979-80  - In
discussing Dr. Dr. Walton Brooks McDaniel, Corinne Edwards
writes:

"He fossiled with and often visited with Dr. Axel A. Olsson of Coral Gables,
a well-
known Palaontological Malacologist and author of many fossil and Recent
shell species, especially from Panama. It was over Dr. Olsson naming a
black and glassy fossil Oliva shell in my honor, but using a masculine
ending,
that first brought these two learned men together, McDaniel wanting to
change
edwardsi to edwardsae and Olsson not giving in. Dr. Axel A. Olsson died, at
age  88, on 26 October 1977 .... "

Bill F.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Drez <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Mistaken genders
>
>
> > Harry and Carole:
> >
> > I see that Carole pulled up my answer that I had originally posted on
> > Conch_L.  In Olsson's original description he first describes the new
> > species, followed by a small section on differentiation of Oliva
edwardsi
> > from similar species of Oliva.  At the end he has a one sentence
paragraph
> > that says:
> >
> > "This Olive is named for Lt. Colonel Corrinne Edwards of the Miami Shell
> > Club, a dedicated collector of Recent and fossil shells."
> >
> > I have never met either Axel or Corrinne.  I did have correspondence
with
> > Axel for several years before his death and he was one of my reviewers
on
> > my first Olive paper on systematics.  I was told by some paleontologists
> > (including one very well known tertiary malacologist) that Axel used the
> > male gender for the species as a joke because Corrinne was constantly
> > bothering him, bringing fossil mollusca to him in hopes that he would
> > eventually name one after her.  Therefore, they apparently knew each
other
> > according to my sources.  Maybe someone in the Miami Shell Club or
someone
> > else who knew both of them could confirm this.
> >
> > I hope that this further clarifies the issue.  Of course, Petuch
rectified
> > this later in one of his publications.
> >
> > Paul
>
>