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Berkeley confusion of ideas here. If I could determine to a half-mile where Hartweg got R. [Ranunculus] canus I should publish it as the type locality. In other words the idea that the first publisher acquires certain vested rights over the species is false. - Sept. 1917. - "From the life of men whose passage is marked by a trace of durable light, let us piously gather up every word, every incident likely to make known the incentives of their great soul for the education of posterity." - Louis Pasteur. - Don't try to mix fossil collecting with bug hunting - they won't mix. That may seen strange advice to you, and you will be inclined to resent it - but it is the result of thirty-five years experience.
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1917 As many things as you choose, but only one at a time - Samuel W. Williston (Sigma Xi Quar. [Quarterly] 7:15). - On the labels of Primula suffrutescens collected by C. F. Sonne the collector has written "Mt. Anderson, Placer Co." On the U.S. topographic maps it is printed "Anderson Peak." I inquire if this peak were named for Dr. C. L. Anderson who worked in that general region.
- Volney Rattan,, new species coll. [collected] by Ranunculus Rattani Collinsia Rattani Mimulus Rattani Gray Cryptanthe Rattani Gilia rattani Prosartes parvifolia Wats. Gilia ambigua Rattan, Bot. Gaz. [Botanical Gazette] 11:338(1886). Campanula exigua Rattan. " " "
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