Bacterial taxonomy: a critique.

or neo-Adansonian taxonomy has also created considerable interest. That our conventional taxonomy has many shortcomings is obvious, and the purpose of this paper is to review the history of some areas of conventional taxonomy, to state my personal views for improvements, and to evaluate critically some publications on numerical taxonomy. If this paper is to have an impact for improvement, it seems to me best to be specific, even though such specificity is bound to cause some antagonism.