Additions and amendments to 'Aphids on the World's Plants'

摘要

An annotated list is provided of the most significant errors and omissions from a series of books on aphids on the world's plants. Some of the problems of ensuring the provision of accurate scientific information, both as hard copy and on-line, are discussed. Any author will know that the satisfaction gained from seeing the results of one's labours in print is always tempered by the mistakes one immediately starts to find; the glaring errors that had somehow remained hidden from view in hours of manuscript checking but that now leap from the page, and the more subtle ones that gradually come to light over a period of years but have no less potential to misinform or mislead, and may even be quoted by other authors, thus perpetuating them for generations to come.