In Nature of 16 August (Vol. 346, 602; 1990), H. T. Clifford, R. W. Rogers and M. E. Dettmann argued that taxonomists might usefully dispense with the existing massive herbarium collections. We have received many letters criticizing this view. Here we publish those received first; the remainder make many of the points below.
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WEST, J., CONN, B. In defence of taxonomy. Nature 347, 222 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/347222a0
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