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[Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853)]
Proposed plan for rendering the nomenclature of Zoology uniform and permanent. London: Richard & John E. Taylor, 1841. Small 8° (185 x 123mm). 15pp., drop-head title, inscription on first page. Stitched. Provenance: Prideaux John Selby; Sir William Selby Church (1837-1928, nephew of the P.J.Selby).
A FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT AND RARE PAMPHLET: THIS COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ORNITHOLOGIST PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY. The somewhat piecemeal application of Linnean principles of nomenclature to zoological specimens meant that by the late 1830s the "the so-called commonwealth of science... [was] becoming divided into independant states, kept asunder by diversities of language" ('Preface' p.2). With this in mind, Strickland set about constructing a set of rules that would eliminate these differences. A preliminary note, preceeding the title, explains "It is proposed at a future period to submit the following scheme to the consideration of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Previously, however, to doing so, it seems desirable to mature the plan as much as possible, by obtaining the opinions of eminent zoologists in various countries; and the proposers of the measure will therefore feel grateful for any remarks or criticisms with which they may be favoured, addressed to the care of Mr. Richard Taylor, Red Lion court, Fleet Street, London" [this copy with additional manuscript inscription:] ",or to H E Strickland Cracombe House Evesham." The proposals were "discussed at the Plymouth meeting of the British Association in that year; and in February 1842 a committee was appointed, consisting of Darwin, Henslow, Jenyns..., John Phillips, Dr... Richardson, W.Ogilby, and J.O. Westwood, with Strickland as reporter. To this committee Yarrell, Owen, W.J. Broderip, W.E. Shuckard, and G.R. Waterhouse were afterwards added. The 'rules' drawn up by them, which were chiefly Stickland's work, were approved at the Manchester meeting of the association in 1842, and were first printed in the report for that year." (DNB). BM(NH) I,p.238.
Proposed plan for rendering the nomenclature of Zoology uniform and permanent. London: Richard & John E. Taylor, 1841. Small 8° (185 x 123mm). 15pp., drop-head title, inscription on first page. Stitched. Provenance: Prideaux John Selby; Sir William Selby Church (1837-1928, nephew of the P.J.Selby).
A FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT AND RARE PAMPHLET: THIS COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ORNITHOLOGIST PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY. The somewhat piecemeal application of Linnean principles of nomenclature to zoological specimens meant that by the late 1830s the "the so-called commonwealth of science... [was] becoming divided into independant states, kept asunder by diversities of language" ('Preface' p.2). With this in mind, Strickland set about constructing a set of rules that would eliminate these differences. A preliminary note, preceeding the title, explains "It is proposed at a future period to submit the following scheme to the consideration of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Previously, however, to doing so, it seems desirable to mature the plan as much as possible, by obtaining the opinions of eminent zoologists in various countries; and the proposers of the measure will therefore feel grateful for any remarks or criticisms with which they may be favoured, addressed to the care of Mr. Richard Taylor, Red Lion court, Fleet Street, London" [this copy with additional manuscript inscription:] ",or to H E Strickland Cracombe House Evesham." The proposals were "discussed at the Plymouth meeting of the British Association in that year; and in February 1842 a committee was appointed, consisting of Darwin, Henslow, Jenyns..., John Phillips, Dr... Richardson, W.Ogilby, and J.O. Westwood, with Strickland as reporter. To this committee Yarrell, Owen, W.J. Broderip, W.E. Shuckard, and G.R. Waterhouse were afterwards added. The 'rules' drawn up by them, which were chiefly Stickland's work, were approved at the Manchester meeting of the association in 1842, and were first printed in the report for that year." (DNB). BM(NH) I,p.238.
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