Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Volume 40Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1907 Includes list of members. |
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Page 82 - These names are by preference those which have come into general use in the fifty years following their publication, or which have been used in monographs and important floristic works up to the year 1890. The list of these names forms an appendix to the rules of nomenclature.
Page viii - Wales in 1881, and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer for the time being of the said Corporation shall be an...
Page xxvi - Statist Mining Department. Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines and Water supply for the year 1905.
Page 85 - No one is authorised to reject, change or modify a name (or combination of names) because it is badly chosen, or disagreeable, or another is preferable or better known, or because of the existence of an earlier homonym which is universally regarded as non-valid, or for any other motive either contestable or of little import.
Page xxxiv - Nos. 5, 6, 1906. The Institution. Department of Commerce and Labor. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1905.
Page 38 - ... arts, and of discovery in science. Further, elementary science, taught practically with the' aid of experiment during a boy's early years, cannot fail to develop the faculty of observation. However keen in vision, the eyes see little without training in observation by the subtle exercise of the mind behind them. From the humblest weed to the stars in their courses, all nature is a great object-lesson for the acquirement of the power of rapid and accurate noting of minute and quickly-changing...
Page xxiv - Nos. 245 - 247, 1906. The Society Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. A List of Official Chemical appointments held in Great Britain and Ireland, in India and the Colonies, 1906.
Page 82 - It will be well, in the future, to avoid the use of the genitive and the adjectival form of the same name to designate two different species of the same genus (for example Lysimachia Hemsleyana, Maxim. (1891) and L.
Page 113 - the place of children." The natives believe that the souls of future children — or perhaps the children, bodies and souls — are shut up there. They are under the care of one old man. He has to see that they do not escape, and to supply them with water. This he does by means of an underground communication with the river about a mile away. The range, of which the hill in question is the last one, runs right to the river. When a child is to be born, this old man sees to the business.
Page 77 - Exposé sur les Congrès pour la Nomenclature Botanique, et six propositions pour le Congrès de Paris en 1900," par le Dr. Otto Kuntze, 8 vo. pp. 16 (no date? 1900). " Protest gegen die zweite ' Commission internationale de Nomenclature botanique,'