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[Charles Davies Sherborn, the Natural History Museum\'s \'magpie with a
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Next month I\'ll be speaking in London at The Natural History Museum at
a one day event [Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to
the 21st century and
beyond](http://iczn.org/content/anchoring-biodiversity-information-sherborn-21st-century-and-beyond).
This meeting is being organised by the International Commission on
Zoological Nomenclature and the Society for the History of Natural
History, and is partly a celebration of his major work [Index
Animalium](http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/) and
partly a chance to look at the future of zoological nomenclature.  
  
Details are available from the [ICZN web
site](http://iczn.org/content/anchoring-biodiversity-information-sherborn-21st-century-and-beyond).
I\'ll be giving a a talk entitled \"Towards an open taxonomy\" (no, I
don\'t know what I mean by that either). But it should be a chance to
rant about the failure of taxonomy to embrace the Interwebs.  
  
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Charles Davies Sherborn, the Natural History Museum's 'magpie with a card-index mind’  Next month I'll be speaking in London at The Natural History Museum at a one day event Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond.

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Anchoring Biodiversity Information: from Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond