The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Volume 51The Society, 1904 - Entomology |
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5th stage abdomen antennæ ANTHELA apex apical AROA Artaxa Australia band Barrackpore basal base betularia bidentata black twigs Butler Butleria butterflies Cauquenes cell Ceylon Chile Chillan cilia clavola closely punctured clypeus coll colour costa coxæ Darala Darjiling darker DASYCHIRA DEILEMERA discal dorsal Druce elytra EUPROCTIS Expanse of wings female femora flavous fore-wings fulvous genus green grey hairs hind-wings Hmpsn Holland hybernation impunctate including the type India insect Java joints Khasia Hills larva larvæ legs LEUCOMA lichen lichen-covered sticks Linn Lond Lymantria Madagascar male mesonotum middle Moore Moths nearly nervure Nilgiri Hills Nyctemera ocellus ochreous Ogove River Orgyia outer margin Oxon pale palpi patches Piedr Plate PORTHESIA posterior pubescence quercifolia Rare Re-fed scutellum segment sides Sikhim skin species specimens Swinhoe tarsi thorax tibiæ Trans transverse under-side veins Walker wings 1 inches xxxii yellow
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Page lxxiv - Systematists will have only to decide (not that this will be easy) whether any form be sufficiently constant and distinct from other forms, to be capable of definition; and if definable, whether the differences be sufficiently important to deserve a specific name. This latter point will become a far more essential consideration than it is at present ; for differences, however slight, between any two forms, if not blended by intermediate gradations, are looked at by most naturalists as sufficient...
Page lxxxiv - It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of '' species ; " in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight — in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea — in some, descent is the key, — in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.
Page lxxxiv - Thus, however regarded, the hypothesis of special creations turns out to be worthless — worthless by its derivation; worthless in its intrinsic incoherence ; worthless as absolutely without evidence ; worthless as not supplying an intellectual need; worthless as not satisfying a moral want. We must therefore consider it as counting for nothing, in opposition to any other hypothesis respecting the origin of organic beings.
Page lxxxv - After describing a set of forms as distinct species, tearing up my MS., and making them one species, tearing that up and making them separate, and then making them one again (which has happened to me), I have gnashed my teeth, cursed species, and asked what sin I had committed to be * In
Page xxxi - VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith; to all to whom these presents shall come greeting...
Page lxxiv - Systematists will be able to pursue their labours as at present; but they will not be incessantly haunted by the shadowy doubt whether this or that form be a true species.
Page xxxi - TELFORD and such others of our loving subjects as have formed themselves into, and are now members of, the said Society, or who shall at any time hereafter become members thereof, according to such...
Page xxxi - Royal will and pleasure, that no resolution, or bye-law, shall on any account or pretence whatsoever be made by the said body politic and corporate in opposition to the general scope, true intent, and meaning of this our Charter, or the laws or statutes of our Realm ; and that if any such rule or bye-law shall be made, the same shall be absolutely null and void, to all intents, effects, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.
Page lxxiv - British brambles are true species will cease. Systematists will have only to decide (not that this will be easy) whether any form be sufficiently constant and distinct from other forms, to be capable of definition; and if definable, whether the differences be sufficiently important to deserve a specific name.
Page lxxiv - In short, we shall have to treat species in the same manner as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This may not be a cheering prospect...