Thanks Peter. As the author says, that contribution was brought to the attention of the American ad hoc EBN committee, but evidently submitted for publication later. It was acknowledged
by the ad hoc committee, looking rather odd among the references –
Just to recapitulate, the American and Australian initiatives have some close points of comparison but are quite separate. They finished up in the same place, the Australian project
being slightly more tentative (unlike the original ambitions, back in October 2022).
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Subject: [Canberrabirds] eponym survey
Perhaps of wide interest ? - a scientist takes on eponyms and advocates of banning them. I've given the DOI to the open access paper under the title
The inordinate unpopularity of changing all eponymous bird and other organismal names
Executive summary ? It is not going to happen.
