xxvi Acknowledgments
(www. archive. org), Botanicus (www.botanicus.org), and the Complete Works of
Charles Darwin project (darwin-online.org.uk), overseen by John van Whye. Without
these resources, many texts would have remained inaccessible to me in Australia.
Therefore, in the light of this gracious assistance from so many people, it follows
that all misunderstandings, errors and incoherencies that remain, and there will be
many, are my own fault.
SECOND EDITION
I must thank the University of California Press for permission to revert the rights
so that I could publish in the series Species and Systematics again, which has been
moved to CRC Press, and to Kim Robinson at UCP for helpful advice. As always,
I am in the debt of my first and present editor Chuck Crumly.
Thanks to Gal Kober, Marc Ereshefsky, Quentin Wheeler, and Brent Mishler for
pushing me on the chapter on phenomenal species. I must also acknowledge all the
specialists with whom I have had long—often frustrating for us both—arguments on
this topic leading to the first edition and the PhD upon which it was based. I must
especially thank David Williams of the National History Museum, Malte Ebach,
Gareth Nelson, and Brent Mishler for general encouragement, none of whom can be
fairly thought to agree with me on all matters.
The following people have also provided information, assistance, or encouragement
for this edition: Glenn Branch, Joachim Dagg, Donald Forsdyke, Laurent Penet,
Staffan Müller-Wille, David Williams, Polly Winsor, and Frank Zachos. Also,
I forgot to acknowledge David-Braddon Mitchell and John P. McCaskey in the first
edition, for which I am duly ashamed. Again, I apologize to those left out this time.
I also must thank Richard Carter and Alexa Quinn for reading and commenting
on the manuscript of this edition.
A blessing is bestowed upon the Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversity
library.org) for making many of the crucial texts available in facsimile form.
Many thanks to Alexis Pollard also, who gave me space to work and encourage-
ment to do so.
No thanks are offered to any funding agency. I did this on my own dime.