 Unless a species or group is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it cannot be recognised by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz., definition...  The Canadian Entomologist - Page 461876Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 508 lehte
...consequently lost Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz^ definition and publication. Definition properly implies...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mere enumeration of the component species, or even of a single... | |
 | 1863 - 376 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz., definition and publication. Definition properly implies...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mere enumeration of the component species, or even of a single... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1843 - 414 lehte
...Zoologicus." 1842. I any authority, viz. de/inition and publication. Definition properly implies ft distinct exposition of essential characters, and in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mere enumeration of the component species, or even of a single... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1851 - 470 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a Zoological term can acquire any authority, viz. definition and publication. Definition properly implies...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable.* Now with regard to the Ptcrodaclylm giganteus, I always understood Mr. Bowerbank to apply the term... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - 1851 - 348 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz. definition and publication. Definition properly implies...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable." (Report, pp . 1 1 3, 1 1 4 .) Now with regard to the Pterodactglus giganteus, Mr. Bowerbank had unreservedly... | |
 | Robert Wight - 1853 - 482 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a natural historical name can acquire any authority, viz. definition and publication Definition properly implies...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, though some maintain that a mere enumeration of the component species or even of a single type, is... | |
 | Hugh Edwin Strickland - 1858 - 784 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz. defmition and publication. Definition properly implies a distinct...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors by Mr. Sowerby in his ' Mineral Conchology,' vol. xvi. pi. 513, for a genus of... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1866 - 798 lehte
...Two things arc necessary before u zoological term can acquire any authority, viz., definition в.т\& publication. Definition properly implies a distinct...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mero enumeration of the component species, or even of a single... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1866 - 818 lehte
...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz., definition and publication. Definition properly implies a distinct exposition of essential characters, und in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mere enumeration... | |
 | 1872 - 506 lehte
...name by which the object shall have been so defined." And in the explanatory remarks it is said, " Definition properly implies a distinct exposition...in all cases we conceive this to be indispensable." Now this Rule merely embodied the feeling and practice of naturalists, and it had been acted on for... | |
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