Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland ...J. Van Voorst, 1858 - 441 Seiten |
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Seite 262 - Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America.
Seite 381 - We therefore recommend the adoption of the following proposition : — § 2. The binomial nomenclature having originated with Linnaeus, the law of priority, in respect of that nomenclature, is not to extend to the writings of antecedent authors.
Seite 380 - For these reasons, we have no hesitation in adopting as our fundamental maxim, the " law of priority," viz. § 1. The name originally given by the founder of a group or the describer of a species should be permanently retained, to the exclusion of all subsequent synonyms...
Seite clxxxviii - Of the three persons concerned with the construction of a binomial title in the case before us, we conceive that the author who first describes and names a species which forms the groundwork of later generalizations, possesses a higher claim to have his name recorded than he who afterwards defines a genus which is found to embrace that species, or who may be the mere accidental means of bringing the generic and specific names into contact. By giving the authority for the specific name in preference...
Seite 219 - Huttons, the Cavendishes, and the Watts, with their successors, the practical philosophers of the present age, — men whose achievements in physical science we find marked on the surface of the country in characters which might be read from the moon, — are not adequately represented ; — it would be perhaps more correct to say, that they are not represented at all;* and the clergy, as a class, suffer themselves...
Seite 394 - Rule 13 authorizes the forming a new specific name in such cases ; but we further wish to state our objections to the practice altogether. Considering as we do that the original specific names should as far as possible be held sacred, both on the grounds of justice to their authors and of practical convenience to naturalists, we would strongly dissuade from the further continuance of a practice which is gratuitous in itself, and which involves the necessity of altering long-established specific names.
Seite 392 - Enaliolimnosaurus crocodilocephaloides of a German naturalist. It is needless to enlarge on the advantage of consulting euphony in the construction of our language. As a general rule it may be recommended to avoid introducing words of more than five syllables. k. Ancient names of animals applied in a wrong sense. — It has been customary, in numerous cases, to apply the names of animals found in classic authors at random to exotic genera or species which were wholly unknown to the ancients. The...
Seite 397 - It is recommended that in subdividing an old genus in future, the names given to the subdivisions should agree in gender with that of the original group. [Etymologies and types of new genera to be stated.] — It is obvious that the names of genera would in general be far more carefully constructed, and their definitions would be rendered more exact, if authors would adopt the following suggestion : — § F.
Seite 219 - ... metaphysics. And on this new arena the combatants will have to employ new weapons, which it will be the privilege of the challenger to choose. The old, opposed to these, would prove but of little avail. In an age of muskets and artillery, the bows and arrows of an obsolete school of warfare would be found greatly less than sufficient, in the field of battie, for purposes either of assault or defence. " There are two kinds of generation in the world...
Seite 390 - Mythological names are best applied In cases where a direct allusion can be traced between the narrated actions of a personage and the observed habits or structure of an animal. Thus when the name...