Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal The Rectification of Names

…Names… Rectification of Names (Cheng Ming) What is necessary is to rectify names … If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. The Analects of Confucius Book 13, verse 3 (Legge translation, 1980)

Rectification of Names (Cheng Ming)

What is necessary is to rectify names … If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.

The Analects of Confucius

Book 13, verse 3 (Legge translation, 1980)

Our first thought: BiodiversityHeritageLibrary.org

Since we would be covering more than botany, the obvious choice was: ZoBo.org Maria Sibylla Merian Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium , [1705]

BoZo.org Or we could give plants precedence:

Maybe TWO portals were needed: Botanicus.org Adam Lonicer Kreuterbuch: künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken … , 1582

Faunicus.org Reginald Pocock Biologia Centrali-Americana Chilopoda and Diplopoda , 1910

The Wine Advisory Board The California Way 1950 Omnivoricus.org

NotDeadThings.org Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808

Extinctionary.org Othniel Charles Marsh The dinosaurs of North America , 1896

LibraryofLife.org WikiBioLitty.org Maybe something to tie into the Encyclopedia of Life: Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

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Or inspired by the All Species Foundation or Species 2000: Omnibiosis.org Vitalis.org Allogy.org Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz Beschreibung mehrerer neuer oder wenig gekannter Arten des Geschlechtes Acanthurus, im stillen Ocean … 1834

BioSpeciesBrary.org FloraunaBrary.org BioBrary.org LifeBrary.org BioLitBrary.org Maybe we need to include the “L” word in some way: Gaspar Schott Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica , 1657

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FloraunaBrary.org

BioBrary.org

LifeBrary.org

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QHQKQL.org Z672.org Z265.org UDC574.org Or maybe something more “metadata-y” Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808 Histoire naturelle générale et particulière…vol. 14. (1766)

QHQKQL.org

Z672.org

Z265.org

UDC574.org

Or more of a 18 th century library LibraryofNaturalCuriosities.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

But in German … WunderkammerBibliothekKatalogDerLebendenSachen.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

So we’d better stick with English: CardCatalogofLife.org Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey Reports on the fishes, reptiles and birds of Massachusetts , 1839

… and make allowances: CardCatalog(ue)ofLife.org Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Our reptiles and batrachians; … indigenous to Great Britain , 1893

Or perhaps just stay enigmatic … 42.museum Antonín Frič Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine… 1893-

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Thanks To Chris Freeland Doug Holland Suzanne Pilsk Neil Thomson A Fathead (genus Psychrolutes )

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