Hernández Socha Yuirubán
Research group "Producción, circulación y apropiación de saberes", Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Postal address: 050034, Medellín, Colombia; Facultad de Ciencias de la Administración, Universidad del Valle, Postal address: 760043, Cali, Colombia; Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Antonio José Camacho, Postal address: 760046, Cali, Colombia.
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2020 Aug;82:101289. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101289. Epub 2020 May 6.
In 1948, American ornithologist Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee began publishing what would be the most complete list of birds from Colombia that had ever been printed up to that time. His work was called The Birds of the Republic of Colombia (TBRC), and at the invitation of Armando Dugand, the director of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and of the Caldasia journal, this work was exclusively published in the journal in five installments spanning four years. This paper analyzes the publishing aspects that particularly influenced the process of carrying out this work, with the objective of showing that scientific practices and publishing practices are not two absolutely separate domains. The circuit of communication present in TBRC's development is analyzed, specifically the efforts of the editor, printer and author to bring this work to fruition. This analysis demonstrates the following: (i) how the scientific interests of Meyer and the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales converge, (ii) the contradictions between scientific interests that promoted the publication of TBRC and the publishing rationale of a journal and (iii) how unforeseen publishing issues of the time, such as the increase in printing costs due to inflation, influenced the final structure of the work.
1948年，美国鸟类学家罗道夫·迈耶·德绍恩塞开始出版当时有史以来最完整的哥伦比亚鸟类名录。他的著作名为《哥伦比亚共和国的鸟类》（TBRC），应哥伦比亚国立大学自然科学研究所所长兼《卡尔达西亚》杂志主编阿曼多·杜甘德的邀请，这部著作分五期在该杂志上独家发表，历时四年。本文分析了对开展这项工作的过程产生特别影响的出版方面，目的是表明科学实践和出版实践并非两个完全分离的领域。分析了TBRC发展过程中的传播回路，特别是编辑、印刷商和作者为完成这项工作所做的努力。这一分析表明了以下几点：（i）迈耶和自然科学研究所在科学兴趣上是如何趋同的，（ii）推动TBRC出版的科学兴趣与期刊出版理念之间的矛盾，以及（iii）当时一些不可预见的出版问题，如通货膨胀导致印刷成本增加，是如何影响该著作的最终结构的。
