AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF INDIANA. Sherman A. Minton Jr. 2001. 2d ed. Indiana Academy of Science, Indianapolis, Indiana. Available from Bill N. McNight, Park Tudor School, 7200 North College Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. ISBN 1-883362-10-5. 404 p. $38.00 (hardcover).—These days, when professional success so often stems from image and brings with it attitude and career leverage, it is comforting to know that not so long ago you could be good simply because you were good, that people would know this without you telling them, and the knowledge of a job well done was a reward unto itself. This was the world of Sherman Minton Jr., and remains the world of those who admired him.
Sherman died on 15 June 1999, at age 80, and left behind some unpublished work: his autobiography Life, Love, and Reptiles (Minton, 2001), a manuscript on the biological species concept (Minton, 2003...