Don't forget that all the figures and the accompanying texts in Lister
(1685-1692) were engraved in mirror image on copper plates, consequently the
texts had to be very brief.
Henk K. Mienis

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From: "Andy Rindsberg" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Freshwater barnacle


> Tom Eichhorst reported,
> > Lister (1681) called it, Nerita subviridis lineis capillaceis.
>
> In English, that would be, more or less, "Greenish Nerita with hairlike
> lines." Stunningly brief, but it's good to keep in mind that Linnaeus
> designed his first system to fit on one large page and always tried to
keep
> it brief in subsequent expansions. He advised that diagnoses be no more
than
> 13 words long. Thus, to understand what Lister (or Röding) meant by this,
> one has to look up the contemporary diagnosis of Nerita as well. This is a
> good practice even today.
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama
>
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