<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wonderful to agree and disagree with you, yes indeed, even better with *spirit*! <div><br></div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jon Stewart would be proud of us both.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I went to the rally in DC last Saturday! We two are indeed sane :-)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>As for the utility of ranks -- well, I'm ready to agree to disagree, as long<br>as we can both acknowledge that lots and lots of existing data "out there"<br>are still classified (in a taxonomic sense) against the Linnaean<br>nomenclatural system, for which dwc:taxonRank is a relevant (at least)<br>attribute.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Indeed! As mentioned in a previous email to you, I can live (even happy) with dwc:taxonRank :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Nico (who does not believe in species but thinks only clades are real)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div><div><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><br>Nico Cellinese, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Curator, Herbarium & Informatics<br>Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology<br><br>Florida Museum of Natural History<br>University of Florida<br>354 Dickinson Hall, PO Box 117800<br>Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, U.S.A.<br>Tel. 352-273-1979<br>Fax 352-846-1861<br><a href="http://cellinese.blogspot.com/">http://cellinese.blogspot.com/</a><br><br><br><br></div></body></html>