MODERN STRATIGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE

STRATIGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE OF ELYSIUM SEA ICE FROM HiRISE

Tapi Muhrika Does Not Correspond with Any One Particular Fever of the Modern Nomenclature

By Assistant-Surgeon Chetan Shah, Officiating Civil Surgeon, Gurgaon. The word Tapi Mulirika is of very frequent occurrence in the mortuary registers of the Panjab and North-Western Provinces as well as in the conversation of the natives with European physicians. Hence it is necessary to understand what it means both properly and popularly. A gentleman of very high linguistic abilities appears ...

“Modern Linnaeus”: A class exercise on plant nomenclature and taxonomy in comparison with a previous experiment

Ethno-classification is a science dealing with a search for order, or a pattern, in the ways in which people name and categorize plants and animals. An experiment was conducted in the Botany class during the 2008-2009 academic year at the University of Roma Tre to collect data on the naming and classifying process of students not aware of the Linnaean system of classification. Forty plant speci...

A new nomenclature for fungi

Important changes brought about by the Melbourne International Code of Nomenclature for Algae,FungiandPlantsare briefly reviewed concerning a clarification of the spelling and typification of sanctioned fungal names, the recognition of electronic publication for the validity of nomenclatural novelties, permission to use English diagnoses or descriptions for their valid publication, and the requ...

Allergen nomenclature.

This article presents a nomenclature system for allergens which has been officially recommended by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). The nomenclature is based on proposals of the IUIS Sub-Committee for Allergen Nomenclature and is applicable to highly purified, well-characterized allergens and to non-purified or partially purified allergenic extracts.