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Dear Bee-Liners:
   "I took my harp to the party but nobody asked me to play".  Well, in
this case (where the "party" is the Workshop on non-Apis pollinators in
Utah in August, and the "harp" is the paper that I had intended to give
at the aforementioned Workshop), it wasn't just that I wasn't asked to
play my harp, but the "Organizers" (a.k.a. Torchio and Tepedino) didn't
even invite me to come to the party!
Well, who needs to go to Utah in August anyway--better to stay in
Toronto and chew on some sour academic grapes . . .  but I DO regret
not having the chance to give my paper: I thought that it was one of my
better efforts and certainly deserved a place in any non-Apis pollinator
workshop.  So what I have decided to do is to "publish it" on the BEE-L
(I think that I quite like the idea of electronic journals--especially
ones where all the refereeing can take place as a general free-for-all
after the paper has been "published": it smacks of those vicious 19th
Century meetings of British learned societies where people like the
infamous Dr. Owen--a real charmer, that one--would combine personal
attack with scholarly criticism to humiliate the guy who had just read
his/her paper to the point where he/she just wanted to hide under a
table!).  So the paper will come to you as a forthcoming message on this
LISTSERV.  Enough people who are going to the Utah meeting are subscrib-
ers of BEE-L to ensure that if the paper has any merit then it will get
discussed in Utah anyway . . . but if you are not interested in non-Apis
pollinators, then please feel free to ignore the thing entirely; and
accept my apologies, if you will, for temporarily cluttering up your
hard disk.  [Oh, but let me add also that even if you AREN'T a non-Apis
person, I have put in a few provocative comments about possible negative
effects of honeybees on cranberry marshes at the end of the paper . . .]
Sincerely, Chris Plowright.
 
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Chris Plowright - via the University of Ottawa
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