A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, Volume 4 - Couverture rigide

Sharpe, Richard Bowdler

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1357667337 ISBN 13 : 9781357667337

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Handbook I should like to say a few words, principally in reply to some friendly criticisms. The plentiful crop of works on British Birds, which springs up year by year and apparently flourishes, renders it almost an impossibility to write a book on the subject on altogether ne lines, as the story of our native birds is being told by a hundred authors in a hundred different ways. Within the restricted limits allotted to me in the Naturalist s Library, it was manifestly impossible to produce a monographic work, and therefore I chose the form of a Handbook, a method which possesses its advantages and disadvantages. Such a work cannot be exhaustive, and I have therefore only tried to make it useful, and I offer a few remarks by way of an A pologia. Nomenclature. The names adopted for the species have been much criticised. Much of this criticism has been prompted by pedantry, and a sort of hero-worship for the work of the ancients, more by a child-like ignorance of the principles of scientific nomenclature, and still more by a wilful and narrowminded intolerance of anything that seems to be new. As a matter of fact, nothing in my system of nomenclature is new, and any one who says so does but display his ignorance of recent ornithological literature. It is, however, encouraging to find that in the best-known popular journals, and even in the best scientific publications of this country, little fault has been found with the method of my Handbook but a general onslaught has been made updn the nomenclature I have adopted. To the reviews in the scientific journals I have scarcely any reply to make.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1357667337
• ISBN 13: 9781357667337
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 404
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