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Hardwicke's Science-Gossip Volume 16; An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880-01-01 Excerpt: ...teachings from a new standpoint. His own account of the origin and aim of " Proserpina" is, "that it was undertaken to put, if it might be, some elements of the science of botany into a form more tenable by ordinary human and childish faculties; or--for I can scarcely say I have any tenure of it myself--to make the paths of approach to it more pleasant. In fact, I only know of it the pleasant distant effects, which it bears to simple eyes; and some pretty mists and mysteries, which I invite my young readers to pierce, as they may, for themselves, my power of guiding them being only for a little way." The first step Mr. Ruskin takes is to reform the nomenclature at present in vogue, and his chief reason for this is very characteristic, namely, that the current names of many flowers are founded on unclean and "Proserpina. Studies of Wayside Flowers, while the air was yet pure among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which my father knew." Uy John Ruskin, LL.D., vol. i.--George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1879. No. 187. debasing associations, of the Devil's own contriving, and he assures his readers that he is always quite serious when he speaks of the Devil. He gives a very amusing account of the existing confusion of names, and tells us, with a touch of comic seriousness, that the Hemdrocallis is now to be called Funkia, in honour of Mr. Funk, a Prussian apothecary! As might be expected, through the whole system of plant names proposed by Mr. Ruskin, there runs a distinct didactic no less than an aesthetic purpose. The terminations of the Latin family names will be for the most part of the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms. "Those terminating in us will indicate real masculine strength (Quercus, Lauras) or...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130362213
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130362213
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 445 gr


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