Antedating of "Biodiversity"

[Joel S. Berson]

Such "conflation" surely is a serious error in scholarship.  Are the
universities and other libraries providing books to Google Print
contributing to such errors?

Joel

At 1/9/2006 01:09 PM, you wrote:
>         Even by the standards of new electronic databases, the datings
>in Google Print are strikingly unreliable.  Normally some confidence as
>to the correct date can be achieved by checking the title or copyright
>page.  In a surprisingly large number of cases, however, books are
>conflated and the title and copyright pages are for a different book.
>
>         In this case, Google Print did not provide the title or
>copyright page; clicking on the appropriate link just gave the cover,
>which does not have a date on it.  Amazon.co.uk appeared to provide
>confirmation of the 1980 date.  Even so, I posted the Google Print
>antedating with a warning, the need for which seems to have been
>well-founded.
>
>
>John Baker