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COMPLAINTS are constantly being made, not only by laymen but by actual workers in science, of the increasing complexity of modern terminology. The fact is indisputable, but is it altogether to be regretted? Is it not rather the outward expression of fuller knowledge and clearer conceptions? If so, the complaints of those indolent persons who wish to gain a “general knowledge” of the subject with the least possible trouble to themselves are worthy of no more consideration than those of the landsman out yachting, of whom Mr. Hamerton writes:—
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Suggestions for Securing Greater Uniformity of Nomenclature in Biology1. Nature 45, 68–69 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045068b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/045068b0