This is the first time that Münster significantly comes before us as a describer of the geography of the New World.
May, 1835, and Stephens gives him the credit of being the earliest describer to attract attention.
Some modern commentators have made savage use of such weapons upon this original describer of witchcraft scenes.
According to the describerthere are considerable differences in the cranial bones, but the comparison of the leg-bones shows such differences in size that these alone would be sufficient to separate the North and South Island forms.
These important objects were sent to the describer by a colonist of Reunion, Monsieur de Malavois, but were obtained from the natives in Madagascar by Captain M.
We shall now present him under a different aspect, as an eloquent and almost unrivalled describer of nature.
It is not a very difficult undertaking to class Fielding or Smollett;--the one as an observer of the characters of human life, the other as a describer of its various eccentricities.
He is not a describer of men and manners--he has neither dramatic nor pictorial faculty; he is simply a chronicler of contemporary opinions.
Altogether we congratulate Mr. Gibbon on a second very marked success, which bids fair to place him, as a describerof Scottish forms of our common humanity, at no very great distance from George Macdonald.
I have next to notice your second objection--that retaining the name of the FIRST describer in perpetuum along with that of the species, is a premium on hasty and careless work.
Indeed, it can hardly be said that two centuries have added much to the language except in point of richness and adaptation to the more multifarious needs of the describer in modern times.
As a describer of scenery he is unmatched among his contemporaries.
A bibliographe is a describer of books and other literary arrangements.
Cotype (G)--an example of the original series when there is no holotype, the describer having used a number of examples as of equal value.
Genolectotype: the one species of a series selected as the type of the genus in which the describer of the genus placed it, subsequent to the description.
Cotypes: are all the specimens before the describer when a species is named, no single one being selected as the type: the type in such case equals the sum of the cotypes: see paratype.
Lamarck is the only exception, that I can think of, of an accurate describer of species, at least in the Invertebrate Kingdom, who has disbelieved in permanent species, but he in his absurd though clever work has done the subject harm.
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