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Excerpt from The Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands, Vol. 1 of 2
The principles of nomenclature are now again in process of development and, consequently, unsettled; it is impossible to meet with the approval of every one in this respect. Our endeavours to give nomenclatory expression to the minute variations of groups of individuals not yet formed into species or subspecies led us to adopt an innovation discussed on pp. 52, 53 and elsewhere in the text; we anticipate that ere long this will be superseded by something better, and only regard it ourselves as a first step towards indicating those minute complex variations of a species within itself, which occur in Nature and are of such great importance in the study of evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
