AIS: HIST: REF: Early Checklists

In a message dated 8/1/2007 12:19:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
richter@eecs.berkeley.edu writes:

John,  are there any plans for entering those checklists at some  point?


I'd say that before the 1949 Check List got entered anywhere for  wider 
public distribution, use, it needs to be cleaned up. Or a  revised edition 
presented, which probably makes more sense. You'd want both  to be available since the 
original is a primary document.
 
It was cobbled together in post-WWII conditions from incomplete  materials, 
and while one is grateful for the efforts of those dedicated persons  who did 
they best they could, it is known to be full of material that should  be 
amplified and clarified by those in the know.
 
One area that is particularly vexatious is the matter of which  cultivars 
were, and were not, not introduced. As introduction did not get noted  for a lot 
of things, one must not draw too many conclusions about this from that  
document. I thought someone was working on this project, but I have not heard  
anything about it recently, and I won't mention names for obvious reasons.
 
As for the 1939CL, it too has some errors, clerical, interpretive,  and, 
frankly, other. Some of these are being clarified  as researchers revisit some of 
the issues for which it is a major  source. I was rather surprised at what 
sorts of very strange  things I discovered when I worked on check list analysis 
issues  for my book on the Rev. C. S. Harrison. 
 
I don't feel that in pointing out that the two older checklists are flawed  
one is being disagreeable or disloyal to AIS, but merely frank.
 
I'm working on a check list of selected bearded cultivars introduced to  
trade prior to 1940 and parties who are aware of specific errors in the 1939  
Check List are invited, and, indeed, encouraged, to send that  information to me 
privately.
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA



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