November, 1999 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.7 
impression of him was that he was very 
distinguished looking, very quiet, a bit cold, 
and unapproachable. I was wrong about the 
“cold” and “unapproachable”. In a short time, 
Dr. Humes, Tom Duncan, and I became very 
close friends, sharing what best friends share: 
food, whiskey, wine, conversation, jokes, and 
fun. 
I remember how frugal he was as director of 
the Boston University Marine Program. No 
marine invertebrate zoology teaching fellow 
will ever forget having to account of each and 
every BUMP bucket after a field trip. I also 
remember him at the MBL lunchtime seminars 
eating his sandwich, then folding the wax 
paper into a neat, perfect square. I always 
wondered if he did this because he was frugal 
and wanted to save the paper for another 
sandwich or because he was so meticulous that 
he folded, instead of crumbled, his trash. 
Once when I was invited to dinner at his home 
in Falmouth, I noticed that he did not throw his 
garbage in the garbage can, but that he placed 
it in his freezer. Upon asking him why he put 
his garbage in the freezer, he replied matter-a- 
factly “So it won’t stink up the house”. He was 
right: he had absolutely no odors in his home. 
I tried doing this myself; unfortunately, in 
order to do this procedure correctly, one must 
remember to take the garbage out of the freezer 
and throw it away on trash day. I’m sure Dr. 
Humes never forgot this part. I always did, so 
my roommates and I had a pile of garbage in 
our freezer. 
I remember how punctual Dr. Humes was. 
Some of the graduate students and I would joke 
that we could set our watches to his arrival at 
work every morning. Before he retired, he 
would pull into his parking space at the MBL 
near the Lillie Building about 7:00 AM. After 
he retired, he pulled in at about 7:15 AM. He 
never varied his routine by more than a few 
minutes. 
Most of all, I remember blow-out dinners at his 
house, Tom’s house, and my house, where we 
would sit around before dinner and drink 
whiskey, wine, or beer, eat some munchies, and 
laugh and laugh. This was followed by more 
food and drinks. Then, we would sit and talk 
for hours. He had such a great sense of humor 
and was the greatest conversationalist I have 
ever met. He had seemingly endless stories to 
tell of his field-collecting adventures and all of 
them were fascinating. 
Dr. Humes was my teacher, my coauthor, my 
mentor, and my quasi-father. But, most of all 
he was my friend. He helped mold me into the 
scientist and person that I am today. As such, I 
will carry a part of him wherever I go. But, I 
would have liked to see him one last time, .. .to 
have a drink with him one last time, .. .to laugh 
with him one last time, .. .and to thank him for 
what he has given to me one last time. I will 
miss my friend.- Mas Dojiri (CLAEMD) 
NEW LITERATURE 
The millennium edition of the ICZN code, 
whose provisions take effect on January 1, 
2000, is now out and available (International 
Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 
1999). The major changes from the preceding 
edition are listed in the Introduction, along 
with a presentation of the genesis of the 
changes, and a mention of proposals which 
were not incorporated into this code revision. A 
number of more radical suggestions to 
restructure the code, including discarding the 
principle of priority, were not accepted. A more 
detailed look at the code will be presented in 
the future, after enough time has passed to 
digest the changes and understand how they 
affect its application. 
A monographic revision of the genus Pandalus 
has just appeared (Komai, 1999). Two 
nomenclatural positions adopted in it affect 
taxonomy of eastern Pacific taxa. First is the 
validity of Pandalopsis. Hendrickx recently 
treated it as a synonym of Pandalus , based on 
cladistic analyses performed by others 
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