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Hi Steve,
The original copy got through here ok although that lame pun might have
slowed it a bit.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Shaw" <srshaw@dal.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] eclose again but maybe not e-close enough
> [Re-sending this as it apparently didn't go through earlier]
>
> Thanks Dave, may be useful so I too downloaded it. I checked out
> several terms and all those seemed to be there, but the 'search' function
> often doesn't give a useful result -- it drops you at a subsidiary use of
> a word, not at the main definition (e.g. microtrichia, lamina, medulla,
> chordotonal), and there's no cross- link from there. It is easy to scroll
> around, though, so not a big problem.
>
> A limitation is that very little information is given against each
> definition, usually just a bare phrase or one liner. It is therefore not
> a useful source to start to allow exploration of a new unfamiliar topic,
> compared say to Wigglesworth's 'Principles' 7th ed., or a standard invert
> zoology text. I wouldn't buy the $90 hardback printed version.
>
> A fair retort of course is that some people can always find something to
> grouse about, even when it's free like this.
> Steve, Halifax
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> On 17-Apr-14, at 11:49 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote:
>
>> Hi All, Apr 17, 2014
>> Further on this topic the following online dictionary came to my
>> attention recently; free download.
>> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/onlinedictinvertzoology/
>>
>> Yt, DW
>
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