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Article: Study data from L.J. Dorr et al provide new insights into science.
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- Food Weekly News
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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"In 1956, Louis O. Williams transferred type specimens of Central American and Mexican plants that had been deposited in the Escuela Agricola Panamericana (EAP), Honduras to the U.S.," scientists in the United States report.
"National Herbarium (US), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. With only a few exceptions, the specimens typified names of taxa that had been described by Williams and his colleagues in Honduras, who had stated in their publications (numerous articles in the scientific serial Ceiba and the book The Rain Forests of Golfo Dulce) that the ''types'' (i.e., holotypes) were deposited in EAR This transfer, which was neither publicly ...