>Date:    Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:41:03 -0600
>From:    Russ Minton <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Priority Help
>
>Hey all!  Hopefully someone can help us with this...
>
>Conrad published two identical papers describing several unionids
>in 1849.
>One was published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural
>History 4(2nd
>Series) (22): 300-303 and the other was published in
>the Proceedings of
>the Academy of Natural Sciences of
>Philadelphia, 4: 152-156. We do not
>have the volumes in our
>library, but note that the Annals was published in
>February.
>
>Can someone check to see when the PANSP paper was published and
>determine
>which has priority? Thanks!
>
>Russ Minton
>University of Alabama

Russ,

You have it exactly backwards.  The PANSP date was Feb 1849, there is no
month on the Annals.  If anyone knows when the Annals was published or even
how one looks up such information, I would also be very interested to know.

Kevin


Kevin
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
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