10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRINOMIALISM»
Discover the use of
trinomialism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
trinomialism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian
14 Trinomialism made further progress in the United States in 1874 when Baird,
Brewer, and Ridgway published A History of North American Birds. In this three-
volume classic its authors, as one scientist wrote, followed the practice set by ...
Paul Russell Cutright, Michael J. Brodhead, 2001
2
A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology After Audubon
He also cited important European precedents for trinomialism, including
Hermann Schlegel of the Leyden Museum, who had begun using trinomials as
early as 1844. A few years earlier, American ornithologists, anxious to make a
name for ...
3
Ordering Life: Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition
Philip Lutley Sclater, secretary of the Zoological Society of London and editor of
the British Ornithologists' Union's journal the Ibis, feared that “if too much stress
were laid upon the value of trinomialism we should open the flood-gates to an ...
4
Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress
Trinomialism is not, as he and other opponents seem to think, simply the putting
of three names in a row, but is the system under which races, especially
geographical races, thought to be of less than specific rank (not aberrations,
individual ...
5
The Borders and Beyond: Arctic, Cheviot, Tropic
A practical test of the true value of Trinomialism — or its hollowness- — can be
demonstrated by submitting one or more of these "racial forms" to the Systematist
who created them. Unless he be told the precise square on the chess-board ...
6
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
Elliott Coues was the American champion of trinomialism, introducing it in his Key
to North American Birds (Coues 1872).46 In the words of the reviewer in Science,
Coues's Key “unquestionably had a career of useful- ness, and has helped on ...
Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie, 2014
7
The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds
Sclater, like many young naturalists of the time, worshipped Huxleyi However,
although trionomialism supported the idea of evolution because of what
trinomialism said about intergradations as one species changed into another, the
British ...
8
The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University : a ...
Like Linnaeus, Williams adopted a binomial system of classification, and as in the
case of Linnaeus, it does not always work well. Williams could have emulated
that ancient theologian Karl Barth, and employed trinomialism. However, what in
...
George Huntston Williams, Rodney Lawrence Petersen, Calvin Augustine Pater, 1999
9
Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
67 The groundwork was in place for a particularly American view on evolution
that grew from serial collections, greater attention to variation (sometimes
connected to trinomialism), and a closely scrutinized conception of geographical
...
David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers, 2011
10
From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. ...
(yellow shank snipe), 72, 89-91, 169, 249n72 Tringa Jlavipes (lesser Yellowlegs)
, 89, 249n72 Tringa melanoleuca (greater Yellowlegs), 89, 2491172 Trinity
Episcopal Church (Galveston), 12, trinomialism, 191 Trombidium holoserceum (
red ...
Samuel Washington Woodhouse, Andrew Wallace, Richard H. Hevly, 2007
