Dick Petit wrote,

> A colleague has called to my attention an event that may clarify the
matter of "no new species in the western Atlantic."  It appears that this
remark is generally attributed to the late Joe Rosewater.  At the 1975 AMU
in San Diego he gave a tribute to William H. Dall. In that paper he stated
the number of species Dall named.  There was ad lib conversation following
the paper in which the remark about "no new species" was made in jest due to
the great number of species described by Dall.  That paper may be found in:
J. Rosewater, 1976. Tribute to William Healey Dall. Bulletin of the American
Malacological Union for 1975: 4-6, portrait.

Wow, your colleague does have a mind like a steel trap. I will only add that
Dall did such a great job of rediagnosing genera -- lots of them -- that
many of his ideas are still current.

Now that the elusive reference has been tracked to its source, let's explore
something else. Where do these new species tend to be found? On the shores,
museum drawers, dredged from deeps, or trays under scopes? Or <voice
dropping one octave> in the minds of men?

The answer is significant, because knowing this would allow people to make
strategies to search for other new species.

Cheers,
Andy

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama

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