 | Henry Woodward - 1891 - 634 pages
...others. New forms are discovered which cannot be placed within any of the existing divisions, and they are no longer sufficient for the purpose, and some...between different animal forms when viewed as a whole. We quite agree with the authors that a linear classification cannot be made to express the many inter-relationships... | |
 | William Henry Flower, Richard Lydekker - 1891 - 792 pages
...different order from the artificial and fanciful divisions formed in the infancy of zoological science. When, however, we pass to the extinct world, all is...one in which this can be done with any satisfactory result ; so that all attempts to form a classification embracing even the already known extinct species... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1891 - 658 pages
...others. New forms are discovered which cannot be placed within any of the existing divisions, and they are no longer sufficient for the purpose, and some...between different animal forms when viewed as a whole. We quite agree with the authors that a linear classification cannot be made to express the many inter-relationships... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 894 pages
...Lydekker, "no longer sufficient for the purpose [of a classification which shall embrace extinct forms] ; and some other method will have to be invented to...between different animal forms when viewed as a whole." Apparently the authors mean, by the last five words of this sentence, " when all are viewed together."... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 750 pages
...Lydekker, " no longer sufficient for the purpose [of a classification which shall embrace extinct forms] ; and some other method will have to be invented to...between different animal forms when viewed as a whole." Apparently the authors mean, by the last five words of this sentence, " when all are viewed together."... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 680 pages
...Lydekker, " no longer sufficient for the purpose [of a classification which shall embrace extinct forms] ; and some other method will have to be invented to...between different animal forms when viewed as a whole." Apparently the authors mean, by the last five words of this sentence, " when all are viewed together."... | |
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Our present divisions and terminology are," say Prof. Flower and Mr. Lydekker, "no longer sufficient for the purpose [of a classification which shall embrace extinct forms] ; and some other method will have to be invented to show the complex relationships... 