Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. William T. Stearn. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1966. xiv, 566pp.($14.75)

Authors

R S. Wilkinson

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

Excerpt: As W. T. Stearn reminds us in the preface to this attractive and welcome work, "the realm of literature which a knowledge of botanical Latin opens to botanists is a strange barbarous place for classicists; invited into it as an interpreter, a good classical scholar may well feel like Alice meeting Humpty Dumpty through the looking-glass." The same perplexity is experienced by the entomologist; those of us educated in the Latin of Cicero and Pliny are ill equipped to name new species or even to translate Latin descriptions, as biological Latin developed long ago into a stylized form not easily conquered without a specific aid.

Recommended Citation

Wilkinson, R S. 1966. "Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. William T. Stearn. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1966. xiv, 566pp.($14.75)," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 1 (3)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.1041
Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol1/iss3/8