Subject: gull book FWD from European Bird Net
Date: Sep 19 18:44:42 2003
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com



Dear All, Visa Rauste commented last week on the new Gull guide of Olsen andLarsen. There are apparently quite a few errors and I suggest that youget in touch with the publishing houses with your suggestions.I have discussed this matter personally with Klaus-Malling and he askedme to convey the following message to the EBN-list (see below).Please note that my intention is to keep this email as a single one-waymessage, but even as such I hope that it will clarify the matter a bit.RegardsHarry J Lehtohlehto at utu.fi=======================================================Klaus says:"Having just received the photoes for Gulls back from the editor, I am currently going through the photoes, published in the Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America . Indeed, there are a number of mistakes, where photoes have been switched off, and the "running order" have been disturbed, most serious in Heuglin's Gull and Herring Gulls, but also concerning some plate texts. Unfortunetaly, as soon a!
s one
photo have been wrongly placed, it affects the whole section. Sharp-eyed readers will find number of such inconsequences, as I did when comparing the photoes to the captions. The maps, too, hold a number of wrong colours, disturbing the impression. It is sad, but readers should be aware, that neither a second correcture nor a blue print, despite being promised by the editor, ever reached the authors. By July, I had expected a second correcture to arrive. What I received was the completed book! The original distribution maps was less colurfull, but more precise - the new ones, again, were never seen and accepted by the author. Readers should also be aware, that the author were mailed the colour seperations only (for acceptance). The author NEVER received a version of the photoes and the photo captions combined! It was most frustrating to see, that the book itself contained too many errors, which easily could have been found, if the editor has cared about mailing the final ma!
nuscript
to the author, not just one correcture and a set of uncommented colour seperations"Klaus Malling Olsen





Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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