Animals of the Past: An Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World
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by Frederic Augustus Lucas 9 Nov, 2018
The author expects to be taken to task for the use of scientific names, and the reader may perhaps sympathize with the old lady who said that the discovery of all these strange animals did not surprise her so much as the fact that anyone should know ... Read more
The author expects to be taken to task for the use of scientific names, and the reader may perhaps sympathize with the old lady who said that the discovery of all these strange animals did not surprise her so much as the fact that anyone should know their names when they were found. The real trouble is that there are no common names for these animals. Then, too, people who call for easier names do not stop to reflect that, in many cases, the scientific names are no harder than others, simply less familiar, and, when domesticated, they cease to be hard: witness mammoth, elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, boa constrictor, all of which are scientific names. And if, for example, we were to call the Hyracotherium a Hyrax beast it would not be a name, but a description, and not a bit more intelligible. Less
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Frederic Augustus Lucas, Sc.D. (March 25, 1852 – February 9, 1929) was a zoologist and an American museum director. Among his major contributions were those in avian anatomy.Frederic A. Lucas was pr...
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