"Taxonomic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Griffiths (1959) accorded considerable taxonomic weight to the presence or absence of epicoracoidal horns in showing relationships among the genera placed in the Brachycephalidae [ Atelopodidae; Dendrobatidae; and Leptodactylidae (in part)] by Noble (1931). Allophryne possesses ...
— Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige • John D. Lynch
... names, natural habitats, &c., which he could retain in his memory, rather than by any evidences which he might give of intellectual powers in the way of constructive thought. At the most these powers might legitimately exercise themselves only in the direction of taxonomic work; and if a Hales, a Haller, or a Hunter obtained any brilliant results in the way of observation and experiment, their merit was taken to consist in the discovery of facts per se: not in any endeavours they might make in the ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes |
