The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names First American Edition

First American Edition

Most of his research has been in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

Michael Brooke has visited every corner of the world in his lifelong pursuit of seabirds

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The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names First American EditionLatin names frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel have been annoying the layman since they first became formalized as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely land loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus, 'dirty old man'? What were naturalists thinking when they called a beetle Agra katewinsletae, a genus of