Frank:

Thanks, I had not noticed that before.

Paul

At 02:42 PM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>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]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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