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Lynn, in Eugene Simon's spider collection in Paris, which includes Chinese specimens collected by David, the exclamation point denotes the collector. Cheers, Norm Dr. Norman I. Platnick Senior Scientist and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of Spiders Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York NY 10024 phone: 212-769-5612 fax: 212-769-5277 email: [log in to unmask] See the World Spider Catalog, version 15, at http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog/ See the goblin spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory website, at http://research.amnh.org/oonopidae ________________________________________ From: Entomological Collections Network Listserve <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Lynn Kimsey <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 7:25:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: question about exclamation mark Folks any of you ever seen an exclamation mark used in species entries like below? This was a request from a librarian at Yale University to one of our librarians. Lynn Hi All, I am looking at 1897 species accounts in L’Abeille journal l’Entomologie out of Paris and seeing notation which I don’t understand. Perhaps this means something to someone out there in library land. Note: I’ve asked around here to no avail. I’m seeing this mark over and over again (for example): L. (id.) coreanus Tschitsch. , 1895. Environs nord de Pekin (A. David! 1865); Monpin (id., 1870); province Schen-si (id., 1875), … I am wondering what the ! means. Do you know? Sometimes it appears after a personal name and sometimes after a place name. Thanks for any information,