Sorry about my earlier slip of the finger.

Some may feel this is a waste of bandwidth, but I was intrigued to see the
full page Seattle Times article on 6/21 about Eugene Hunn (our own SAS "Bird
Brain"). There is no more than a short sentence or 2 about birds, but it is
great to see some of the vocations of the local birding community. The
article (for those who haven't seen it) discusses Dr. Hunn's work on the
length of lists that can be remembered by a range of classifications and
cultures. Can anyone remember more than 500 of something? I note the
elaborate classifications schemes developed in fields like chemistry to
generalize and thereby allow more items to be recalled in sub-classes.

Charles Vaughan
cev at rocket.com