 | Science - 1869 - 508 pages
...propagate important errors. [Names not clearly defined may be changed.] — Unless a species or jfroup is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it...consequently lost Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz^ definition and publication. Definition properly implies... | |
 | Geology - 1863 - 376 pages
...name may bo chauged when it implies a false proposition which is likely to propagate important errors. [Names not clearly defined may be changed.] Unless...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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1843 - 414 pages
...it implies a false proposition •which is likely to propagate important errors. [Names not clear ly defined may be changed.'} Unless a species or group...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire * This laborious and difficult research will in future be greatly facilitated... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1851 - 348 pages
...Pterodactyle. The Committee for the Reform of Zoological Nomenclature next proceed to determine that, " Names not clearly defined may be changed. Unless a...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... | |
 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1851 - 470 pages
...Regulation of Zoological Nomenclature, amongst other excellent rules, have determined, that : — " Names not clearly defined may be changed. Unless a...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... | |
 | Hugh Edwin Strickland - Geology - 1858 - 784 pages
...name may be changed when it implies a false proposition which is likely to propagate important errors. [Names not clearly defined may be changed] Unless...consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz. defmition and publication. Definition properly implies... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1866 - 818 pages
...proposition which is likely to propagate important errors. [Name« not clearly divined may be c1iaiw/ed.~\ Unless a species or group is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it cannot he recognized by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two things are necessary... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1866 - 798 pages
...proposition which is likely to propagate important errors. [Names not clearly dißned may be changed.] Uniese a species or group is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it cannot bo recognized by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two things arc necessary... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 418 pages
...have fallen under the twelfth rule governing naturalists, and the reasons therefor, as follows : " Unless a species or group is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it can not be recognized by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two things... | |
 | American Ornithologists' Union - Birds - 1886 - 412 pages
...Definition of Names. CANON XLI. A name to be tenable must have been defined and published. REMARKS. — "Unless a species or group is intelligibly defined...the signification of the name is consequently lost Definition properly implies a distinct exposition of essential characters, and in all cases we conceive... | |
| |
Unless a species or group is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it cannot be recognized by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority, viz. 
