 Latin, but can be compared only to the puerile quibblings of the middle ages. It is contrary to the genius of all languages, which appear never to produce new words by spontaneous generation, but always to derive them from some other source, however distant...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 118by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1869 - 508 pages
...generic names, as Dacelo and Cetlola of Mcedo, Zapornia of Porzana, &c. Such verbal trifling as this 19 in very bad taste, and is especially calculated to...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus. a. Names previously canceled by the operation of § 6. — Some authors consider that when... | |
 | Geology - 1863 - 376 pages
...the same class we may refer anagrams of other generic names, as Dacelo and Cedola of Akedo, Zapurnia of Porzana, &c. Such verbal trifling as this is in...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus. q. Names previously cancelled by the operation of § 6. — Some authors consider that when... | |
 | Hugh Edwin Strickland - Geology - 1858 - 784 pages
...difficulty in selecting generic names which have not been used before, have adopted the plan of coining words at random without any derivation or meaning...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus. q. Names previously cancelled by the operation of § 6. — Some authors consider that when... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1866 - 798 pages
...produce new words by -p"Htaneous generation, but always to derive them from some other source, bowtver distant or obscure. And it is peculiarly annoying...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuiis. q. Names previously cancelled by the operation of § 6.—Some authors consider that when... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 418 pages
...finds no precedent in the Augustan age of Latin, but can be compared only to the puerile quibbliugs of the Middle Ages. It is contrary to the genius of...etymologist, who, after seeking in vain through the vast store-house of human language for the parentage of such words, discovers at last that he has been pursuing... | |
 | American Ornithologists' Union - Birds - 1886 - 412 pages
...trifling as this is in very bad taste, and is especially calculated to bring the science into contempt It is contrary to the genius of all languages, which...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus." (SA Code.) 1 1. Indicate the etymology of each name proposed. — While it is not now intended... | |
 | American Ornithologists' Union - Birds - 1886 - 416 pages
...calculated to bring the science into contempt It is contrary to the genius of all languages, which is peculiarly annoying to the etymologist, who after...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus." (BA Code.) 11. Indicate the etymology of each name proposed. — While it is not now intended... | |
 | American Ornithologists' Union - Birds - 1892 - 96 pages
...trifling as this is in very bad taste, and is especially calculated to bring the science into contempt It is contrary to the genius of all languages, which...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus." (SA Code.) 1 1. Indicate the etymology of each name proposed. — While it is not now intended... | |
 | American Ornithologists' Union - Birds - 1908 - 102 pages
...trifling as this is in very bad taste, and is especially calculated to bring the science into contempt It is contrary to the genius of all languages, which...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus." (BA Code.) 11. Indicate the etymology of each name proposed. — While it is not now intended... | |
 | Allan Octavian Hume - Birds - 1877 - 538 pages
...random without any derivation or meaning whatever. The following are examples ; Viralva, Xema, Aieca, Assiminia, Quedius, Spisula. To the same class we...discovers at last that he has been pursuing an ignis fatuus. (q.) Names previously cancelled by the operation of § 6. — Some authors consider that, when... | |
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