The pisidiologist Hans Kuiper wrote several papers (mainly in Dutch) on the
French malacologist J.-R. Bourguignat. Bourguignat, it appeared, was a
natural born disser.
I have one of Bourguignat's writings (published in 1882), titled "Lettres
malacologiques a MM. Brusina d'Angram et Kobelt de Francfort" and it is a
flame out from the beginning ("Vous avez été mal conseillé le jour où il
vous a pris la fantaisie, dans votre Introduction au genre Orygoceras...")
all the way to page 54 (Pour moi, je tâcherai d'être un peu moins dur au
sujet de la fabrication [word in italics, MF] de leur genre Godlewskia
[genus name probably deliberately not printed in italics, MF], je leur
dirai, en employant leur langage, que pour une bonne plaisanterie, C'EST UNE
BONNE PLAISANTERIE! [last words in capitals. MF].
Marien Faber
www.mollus.nl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Jordan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: Send me your flame-outs
> All the prior examples are much too tame. I have in my library a
> wonderful little paper written by P. G. Parkinson (the Pettifogging
> Press, 1979) and published in 40 copies (this being #19) titled:
>
> 'A consideration of the systematics of the New Zealand Rhytididae
> (Mollusca: Pulmonata) with a repudiation of the nonsensical "Ring
> Species" speculation lately indulged in by Dr. Climo.'
>
> As my kids would say, "Climo, you been dissed"!
>
> Ciao,
> Scotty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Paul Callomon
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:03 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Send me your flame-outs
>
> Colleagues,
>
> For some years I have kept a little file of 'malacological flame-outs'.
> These are little moments from the literature when authors could not
> contain themselves. Their comments usually refer unflatteringly to the
> work of others, such as when B. B. Woodward - in the Zoological Record -
> accused the author of the new genus and species Extra extra of 'trifling
> with his colleagues'.
> I suspect other people have also kept such mementos, and think that a
> number of the better ones could be stitched together to make an
> entertaining article. I therefore invite all and sundry to send me their
> 'flameouts', and if enough arrive I'll write them up and submit them to
> an appropriate publication. I need the exact quote, and the full
> reference including page number.
>
> PC.
>
> Paul Callomon
> Collections Manager
> Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
> Department of Malacology
> Academy of Natural Sciences
> 1900 Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
> Tel 215-405-5096
> Fax 215-299-1170
> Secretary, American Malacological Society
> On the web at http://erato.acnatsci.org/ams/
>
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