The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names Previous owner's stickers on first

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First American Edition

This illustrated guide covers a wide range of species that may be sighted along the coastline or offshore by the whale watcher

Color photos of 30 species

The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names Previous owner's stickers on firstLatin 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