Let such an object be heard of by such a systematist as Avebury, and the mere mention of it is as nearly certainly the stimulus to a conventional reaction as is a charged body to an electroscope or a glass of beer to a prohibitionist.
From the above brief account it may perhaps be concluded that Berkeley was essentially a systematist and founder of new species.
It smooths the way for every systematist who comes after.
Though he attained high distinction in many fields of Botany, being an accomplished Systematist and Palaeobotanist, probably his greatest service was on the scientific side of Horticulture.
In fact, he was not merely a Scientific Systematist in the older sense.
The pattern of the left side is so definite that had the variation affected the right side also, no systematist would have hesitated to give the specimen a new specific name.
Surely the reason is that though the systematist may be convinced of the general truth of the evolution theory at large, he is still of opinion that species are really distinct things.
The systematist is primarily a giver of names, as Ray with his broader views perceived.
Even though the physiological distinction be allowed to count for something in otherwise doubtful cases, no systematist would constitute a species on such grounds alone.
With material of the two seasons in hand for comparison, close attention to the variation will permit the systematist to recognize the difference in shade of brown as seasonal variation and not geographic or specific variation.
In weasels, change in color of the pelage is the seasonal variation most important for the systematist to understand.
The systematist frequently distinguishes between two nearly allied species, as for instance in the Lycænidæ, chiefly by the position of certain insignificant black spots on the under side of the wing (P.
If a systematist were asked whether these new races of Drosophila are comparable to wild species, he would not hesitate for a moment.
The humble, but ridiculous, systematist with his glass tubes of alcohol for collecting fleas, his microscopic distinctions, and Latin nomenclature has become a benefactor of humanity.
Every entomologist also knows that the external sexual organs of insects, of both sexes, are of special importance to the systematist or classifying naturalist.
He was the first systematist to occupy himself in a philosophical manner with the problems of general biology.
As a systematist of vast experience Lamarck knew how difficult it is in practice to distinguish species from varieties.
Of this group Lamarck was facile princeps, as he combined great sagacity and experience as a systematist with rare intellectual and philosophic traits.
So, in natural history, contrariety of opinion perplexes, while the absence of opinion leaves the systematist perfectly unbiassed in the formation of his own.
The visible attributes are those made use of by the systematist in cataloguing the different forms of animal and plant life, for he has no other choice.
A systematist who defined the wild sweet pea could hardly fail to include in his definition such characters as the procumbent habit, the tendrils, the form of the pollen, the shape of the flower, and its purple colour.
It is not unlikely that most of the various characters which the systematist uses to mark off one species from another, the so-called specific characters, are of this nature.
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