Re: NANFA-- Center for North American Herpetology

Stan Perkins (stanperkins_at_academicplanet.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:15:18 -0600

Thanks Bruce, that name has been driving me crazy. A friend told me about
them but had little information at hand. Now I can do a search.

Stan Perkins
Houston, TX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Center for North American Herpetology

> I don't know how I got on these people's mailing list but it's always
> interesting. The CNAH web site is an interesting resource for those of you
> with herp questions.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
>
> NEWS RELEASE
> The Center for North American Herpetology
> Lawrence, Kansas
> 18 March 2004
>
> CNAH Reaches the Quarter Million Visitor Mark
>
> The Center for North American Herpetology, the most frequently
> accessed academic herpetological web site on the internet worldwide,
> recorded user 250,000 on 18 March 2004. The number of visitors that
> then went on to access the various pages and gratis services provided
> within the CNAH web site numbered in the millions. The CNAH web site
> went online on 1 January 1998.
>
> Why do herpetologists visit the CNAH web site?
>
> Access the CNAH PDF Library. Download 110 herpetological articles
> gratis. PDF articles are the future (and will eventually replace print
> journals). Why? No dues, no trees chopped down, and, above all, fast
> and free distribution of research and knowledge about amphibians,
> turtles, reptiles, and crocodilians to any interested biologist.
>
> Access the CNAH Directory of Herpetologists and be sure to add your
> name to it. With 948 herpetologists registered, it is the largest such
> internet directory in the world. Note: If you are already in the
> directory, be sure and update your information if you haven't done so
> recently. (Can't remember your password? Contact Joe Collins at
> jcollins_at_ku.edu).
>
> Access the CNAH Standard Common and Current Scientific Names List. It
> is the only such list on the internet that is updated daily (by our
> diligent foundation staff), thus ensuring that users of the web site
> have instant access to any proposed taxonomic changes involving the
> North American (north of Mexico) herpetofauna. Also, the CNAH list
> keeps North American herpetologists apprised of the common names and
> taxonomy that will appear in the next (fourth) edition of the
> "Peterson Field Guide to Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and
> Crocodilians of Eastern and Central North America."
>
> Access the CNAH list of online herpetological collections of preserved
> specimens. Its still the only centralized location where you can
> access those collections that actually give you real locality data.
>
> Access the CNAH list of jobs/positions for herpetologists. There
> aren't that many jobs in our profession, so keep abreast of the few
> offered.
>
> Access our link sites; we have 500 links to North American
> herpetological web sites, the largest such assemblage on the internet.
>
> These are but a few of the many gratis services provided on the CNAH
> web site. To the many of you who have contributed financially to our
> foundation, we express our sincere thanks and gratitude. Your
> generosity has ensured that The Center for North American Herpetology
> is now permanently endowed, and will be operating through the next
> millennium.
> --
> Joseph T. Collins
> Director, The Center for North American Herpetology
> 1502 Medinah Circle
> Lawrence, Kansas 66047
> (785) 749-3467
> jcollins_at_ku.edu
> www.cnah.org
>
> --
>
> Joseph T. Collins
> The Wildlife Author Laureate of Kansas
> Adjunct Herpetologist, Kansas Biological Survey
> Adjunct Curator of Herpetology, Sternberg Museum of Natural History
> Emeritus, University of Kansas Natural History Museum
> Instructor (Herpetology), Washburn University
>
> ADD YOUR LISTING TO THE CNAH ONLINE DIRECTORY at http://www.cnah.org
>
> Definition: A species is "a single lineage of ancestral descendant
> populations of organisms which maintains its identity from other such
> lineages and which has its own evolutionary tendencies and historical
> fate" (Wiley, 1978, page 18).
>
> HERPTILE, n. A completely illegitimate term that has been used
> recently in amateur literature as a short-hand reference to reptiles
> {and turtles} and amphibians. It is also occasionally used in
> professional literature by authors who apparently lack a classical
> background. . . . from Peters, James A. 1964. Dictionary of
> Herpetology. New York: Hafner Publishing Company.
>
> Current mailing addresses:
>
> Director
> The Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH)
> 1502 Medinah Circle
> Lawrence, Kansas 66047
> (785) 749-3467
> email: jcollins_at_ku.edu
> Web Page: http://www.cnah.org
>
>
> Adjunct Herpetologist
> Kansas Biological Survey - Higuchi Hall
> The University of Kansas
> 2101 Constant Avenue
> Lawrence, Kansas 66047-3729
> (785) 864-1537 FAX
> email: jcollins_at_ku.edu

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