- The
quinarian system was a
method of
zoological classification which was po****r in the mid 19th century,
especially among British naturalists. It was...
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produced an
influential illustrated classification of
birds based on the
quinarian system that was then in fashion. He
settled in New
Zealand in
later life...
- and
superior to "artificial" ones. A
particularly po****r idea was the
Quinarian system po****rised by
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840),
William Sharp...
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order in
nature and he
attempted biological classifications based on the
Quinarian system. Kaup is also
known for
having coined po****r
prehistoric taxa...
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Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors.
Vigors was
constrained by the
quinarian system and his use of
Paradisaeae was not
intended as a
family name. Gill...
- politician. He po****rized the
classification of
birds on the
basis of the
quinarian system.
Vigors was born at Old Leighlin,
County Carlow, in 1785. He was...
- his 1821 book
Horae Entomologicae which put
forward the short-lived "
Quinarian"
system of
classification into 5 groups, each of 5 subgroups, etc., ****erted...
-
curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The
obsolete Quinarian system of
biological classification attempted to
group creatures into...
- tree-like
triangular diagram by
which Chambers wanted to
illustrate the
Quinarian classification system of animals.
Three mistakes in the text and the graph...
- In some of his
early articles, Gray
adopted William Sharp Macleay's
quinarian system for
classifications of
molluscs (1824),
butterflies (1824), echinoderms...
