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Excerpt from Phytologia Memoirs VIII: Encyclopaedia Coniferae
In these series of monographic essays what I am stress 5 the need for a uniform system of classification of the Coniferae. Many authors have completely different opinions on certain individual species, for example some botanists in certain countries have named new species primarily on the basis of geographic distribution. That is some authors seem to recognize separate taxa just because they are native in different nearby countries. I seriously wonder whether polit ics sometimes interferes with scientific studies. This can be further illustra ted by some scientists following trends as to just be accepted by their colleagues. For instance, most botanists in the western United States use the term subspecies for infraspecific taxa of the Coniferae as opposed to most botanists in the Eastern United States that use the term varietas for infraspecific variation in the wild. It has been my observation that just because a certain majority of scientists follow one particular theory it does not mean that they are always right. It is often true that a scientist can not always depend on the work of earlier scientists, but that he has to make his own observations from scratch. Then the scientist has to try to correlate his new data with previous data and to make his observations known even if they are in general disagreement with the majority.
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