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  • Reconstructing research net...
    Donovan, S.K.

    The Geological curator, 12/2014, Volume: 10, Issue: 2
    Journal Article

    The offprint is in decline as a means of scientific communication in the age of the pdf, but signed offprints are important sources of data in curatorial and historical research. In the example of Dr Charles Taylor Trechmann (1885-1964), a researcher who published only single author papers, with one exception, signed offprints reinforce our knowledge of his research network and ask questions. Recipients include authorities entrusted with describing certain specimens collected in the Antilles (L.F. Spath, T.S. Westoll, T.H. Withers), fellow conchologists (R.B. Newton) and Caribbean geologists (C.A. Matley), an F.R.S. who may have nominated Trechmann for fellowship and a...