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FIELD NOTES ON FIVE “JACKDAWS OF SCHOLARSHIP”
Author(s) -
Ewan Joseph
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1221115
Subject(s) - scholarship , value (mathematics) , field (mathematics) , history , library science , zoology , art history , biology , computer science , mathematics , political science , law , pure mathematics , machine learning
Summary The nature and requisites of biological bibliography are reviewed. Biographical notes on five bibliographers–Jonas Dryander, G. A. Pritzel, Joseph Sabin, Alfred Rehder, and Claus Nissen–are presented. Their different backgrounds, methods, and results as related to their potential usefulness for the investigator are considered. The value of consulting bibliographies outside the field of botany, particularly zoology and travel works, is suggested for many botanical problems.