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Ars magna

Wiwaxia (uninformative but euphonious name) asked:

>What's next?  Anagrams?  

There was a nineteenth-century entomologist who named about a dozen 
genera as anagrams of 'Caroline' or 'Carolina'.  This is believed to have 
been the name of his wife or lover (or, with a bit of luck, both).  I 
think he worked on Hemiptera, and it was a coleopterist who named 
Polychisme, Marichisme, etc.

                                                All the best,

                                                                Rostrum