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[...] 5th edition of Berry Go Round is being hosted at A Neotropical Savanna this month. A Neotropical Savanna is one of my favorite blogs, so you should definitely go check [...]
[...] Berry Go Round No. 5 is up at A Neotropical Savanna. There’s a lot celebrating the birthday of Linnaeus on 23 May in the Gregorian calendar.1 But there are also some dandy posts on food and agriculture, to whit: My Asparagus Adventure, Best Fruit Ever? (the pomegranate), and Drought for Thought. [...]
So sorry I missed offering a contribution to your totally awesome Berry Go Round. ‘Just stumbled into it via Seeds Aside, who’s doing the next Circus of the Spineless.
Speaking of Linnaeus and how things got their names, you might enjoy this bit from one of my own posts of last year:
“[Linnaeus] named a noxious weed after a German botanist he disliked [Siegesbeckia orientalis, Johann Siegesbeck, who had called his work "loathesome harlotry"] and the entire toad family after a French rival — names we still use today,” writes Robert Lee Hotz re Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist who gave the world modern taxonomy, the science of classifying organisms — on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the great man’s birth. In celebration, “Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and his colleagues launched the new online Encyclopedia of Life with $12.5 million from the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.” Were Tiny (lurking, above left) a namer of species like Linnaeus, she would no doubt rename a certain noxious rodent after her brother, Baby (lounging, above right). Babycakesia chelseana, anyone?
[...] Dear BGR readers, please have this late edition from June. The previous BGR (#5) was posted here at A Neotropical Savanna, and July’s edition (#7) will be hosted at A Blog Around The Clock. [...]
"...a natural and stable ecosystem occuring under a tropical climate having a relatively continuous layer of xeromorphic grasses and sedges, and often with a discontinuous layer of low trees and shrubs."
Cited by Kricher, J., 1997. A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics (2nd ed - 1999), Princeton University Press, 451 pp.
May 26, 2008 at 7:54 am
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May 26, 2008 at 7:56 am
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May 26, 2008 at 7:59 am
WOW. So much information in one post. It will take me a week to go through all of the references.
May 26, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hi Don,
Thanks for commenting. That’s why we’re retired, isn’t it? To sit at our computers for weeks at a time?
May 26, 2008 at 9:12 am
Fantastic! Thanks for putting this together!
May 26, 2008 at 9:24 am
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May 26, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hi Susannah,
Thanks for your comment and for the kind words from your link.
Mary
May 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] Berry Go Round No. 5 is up at A Neotropical Savanna. There’s a lot celebrating the birthday of Linnaeus on 23 May in the Gregorian calendar.1 But there are also some dandy posts on food and agriculture, to whit: My Asparagus Adventure, Best Fruit Ever? (the pomegranate), and Drought for Thought. [...]
May 31, 2008 at 7:34 am
So sorry I missed offering a contribution to your totally awesome Berry Go Round. ‘Just stumbled into it via Seeds Aside, who’s doing the next Circus of the Spineless.
Speaking of Linnaeus and how things got their names, you might enjoy this bit from one of my own posts of last year:
“[Linnaeus] named a noxious weed after a German botanist he disliked [Siegesbeckia orientalis, Johann Siegesbeck, who had called his work "loathesome harlotry"] and the entire toad family after a French rival — names we still use today,” writes Robert Lee Hotz re Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist who gave the world modern taxonomy, the science of classifying organisms — on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the great man’s birth. In celebration, “Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and his colleagues launched the new online Encyclopedia of Life with $12.5 million from the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.” Were Tiny (lurking, above left) a namer of species like Linnaeus, she would no doubt rename a certain noxious rodent after her brother, Baby (lounging, above right). Babycakesia chelseana, anyone?
http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2007/05/schumer_httpwww.html
May 31, 2008 at 8:03 am
Sissy,
Thanks for the fascinating information about Linnaeus and his naming penchants.
Mary
July 1, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] Dear BGR readers, please have this late edition from June. The previous BGR (#5) was posted here at A Neotropical Savanna, and July’s edition (#7) will be hosted at A Blog Around The Clock. [...]