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Science subjects: Geology, Biology, Chemistry, Taxonomy, Medical, Math, etc. You can search the 1911 EB here: [1]
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General
- Alkali manufacture - Alkali
- Calipash and Calipe - "the gelatinous substances in the upper and lower shells, respectively, of the turtle"
- Colours of animals - very long article that brings together all things related to animal colors and camoflauge, counter-coloration
- Colure - in astronomy, either of the two principal meridians of the celestial sphere
- Condensation of gases –
- Economic entomology – "the name given to the study of insects based on their relation to man, his domestic animals and his crops~ and, in the case of those that are injurious, of the practical methods by which they can be prevented from doing harm, or be destroyed when present." Quite a long article.
- Energetics - Physics
- Isoclinic lines - lines connecting those parts of the earths surface where the magnetic inclination is the same in amount
- Isodynamic lines - lines connecting those parts of the earths surface where the magnetic force has the same intensity
- Geometrical continuity, today called Geometric continuity - I read half of it and couldn't figure it out. [2] - Could be related to the continuity/limits in calculus. Kepler fans might like this one because it talks about him a lot.
- Liquid gas - no clear article on first glance. Prolly dated and prolly about liquified gas like liquid oxygen, nitrogen, etc. or liquid fuel
- Marcescent - (Lat. marcescens, withering), a botanical term for withering without falling off. That's the whole entry.
- Micronucleus - "the smaller nucleus in Infusoria"
- Objective glass - the lens of any optical system which first receives the light from the object viewed
- Permeameter - instrument for rapidly measuring the permeability of a sample of iron or steel
- Pylome eb1911 - in Zoology, the name given to the principal opening (or openings) of the shell (theca, test) of such Protozoa as possess one
- Rhacis - in botany the axis of an inflorescence or of a branched leaf; in zoology, the stern of a feather
- Rhatany or Krameria Root - in medicine, the dried root either of Para rhatany or of Peruvian rhatany
- River engineering - very long article on river engineering. The content definitely should be copied over to here, but may take some work to shape into proper content for Wikipedia.
- Ruderal - entire article: "(Lat. rudus, rubbish), a botanical term for plants growing on rubbish heaps or in waste places."
- Strophoid, also known as the Logocyclic curve or Foliate - article needs expanding, currently only says "A curve."
- Variation and Selection - related to evolution and heredity (biology); content should be copied to expand gene pool and Natural selection, at least.
Chemicals and Substances
- Mandelic acid - Phenylglycollic Acid - C6H5CHOHCOOH, an alpha-hydroxy acid (AHA) which has a hydroxyl group on the carbon atom next to the acid group.
- Mellitic acid - (benzene hexacarboxylic acid), C6(COOH)6
- Mesoxalic acid - (dioxymalonic acid), (HO2C)2C(OH)2 or C311406
- Murexide - the ammonium salt of Durpuric acid
- Naphthylamine or Aminonaphthylamine - Ci0H7NH1, naphthalene homologues of aniline, in contrast to which they may be prepared by heating the naphthols with ammoniazinc chloride
- Officinal - term applied in medicine to drugs, plants and herbs, which are sold in chemists and druggists shops...
- Phenazine - Azophenylene, C12H8N?, in organic chemistry, the parent substance of many dyestuffs...
- Phthalazines Phthalazine - benzo-orthodiazines or benzopyridazines
- Picene - ChH1I, a hydrocarbon found in the pitchy residue obtained in the distillation of peat-tar and of petroleum
- Piperazin - substance formed by the action of sodium glycol on ethylene-diamine hydrochloride
- Propiolic acid - acetylene mono-carboxylic acid, an unsaturated organic acid
- Pyrones Pyrone –
- Quinoxalines - (Benzopyrazines), in organic chemistry, heterocycic compounds containing a ring complex made up of a benzene ring and a pyrazine ring
- Retinite - a general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of brown coal...
- Schlippes salt - sodium thioantimoniate Sodium Sulphantimoniate?
- Safranine - the azonium compounds of symmetrical diamino-phenazine and containing the ring system annexed
- Sulphonal - acetone diethyl sulphone
- Triazoles; Triazole - in organic chemistry, a series of heterocyclic compounds containing the ring complex
Minerals and Geology topics
General
- Barton Beds - the name given to a series of softish grey and brown clays...
- Bathonian Series - the typical Bathonian is the Great Oolite series of England
- Bembridge Beds - strata forming part of the fluvio-marine series of deposits of Oligocene age, in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, England.
- Bovey Beds - a deposit of sands, clays and lignite in Devonshire, England
- Bracklesham Beds - a series of clays and marls, with sandy and lignitic beds, in the Middle Eocene of the Hampshire Basin, England
- Bradford Clay – in geology, a thin, rather inconstant bed of clay or marl situated in England at the base of the Forest Marble
- Clay-with-Flints - the name given by W. Whitaker in 1861 to a peculiar deposit of stiff red, brown or yellow clay containing unworn whole flints as well as angular shattered fragments...
- Dalradian - in geology, a series of metamorphic rocks...
- Diluvium - a term in geology for superficial deposits formed by flood-like operations of water
- Giants Kettle - in physical geography, the name applied to cavities or holes which appear to have been drilled in the surrounding rocks by eddying currents of water bearing stones...
- Mylonite - in petrology, a rock which has been crushed and ground down by earth movement and at the same time rendered compact by pressure
- Peperino - an Italian name applied to a brown or grey volcanic tuff
- Quartz-Porphyry - porphyritic crystals of quartz in a more fine-grained matrix which is usually of micro-crystalline or felsitic structure
- Reading bed - a series of marine and estuarine beds
- Speeton Beds - in English geology, a series of clays well exposed at Speeton
- Torridonian "a series of pre-Cambrian arenaceous sediments", after Loch Torridon and Torridon sandstone.
Minerals
- Bismuthite - somewhat rare mineral, consisting of bismuth trisuiphide, BuS3
- Borolanite - an igneous mineral, named after Loch Borolan in Sutherland.
- Childrenite - a rare mineral species; a hydrous basic aluminium iron phosphate
- Clinoclasite - mineral consisting of the basic copper arsenate (CuOH)1AsO4
- Connellite - a rare mineral species, a hydrous copper chloro-sulphate
- Copper-glance - a mineral consisting of cuprous sulphide, Cu2S, and crystallizing in the orthorhombic system
- Freieslebenite - a rare mineral consisting of sulphantimonite of silver and lead
- Moldavite - a mineral, the only gem-quality green-stone of extra-terrestrial origin; natural green moldavite (tektite)
- Napoleonite - also called Corsite
- Nepheline-Syenite -
- Parisite - a rare mineral, consisting of cerium, lanthanum, didymium and calcium fluo-carbonate, (CeF)zCa(C03)3. It is found only as crystals.
- Pharmacosiderite - a mineral species consisting of hydrated basic ferric arsenate
- Rubellite - a red variety of tourmaline
Geologic time divisions (many may be obsolete)
- Bernician Series - lower portion of the Carboniferous System
- Chellian - the first epoch of the Quaternary period when the earliest human remains are discoverable
- Cornbrash - in geology, the name applied to the uppermost member of the Bathonian stage of the Jurassic formation in England
- Keuper - in geology the third or uppermost subdivision of the Triassic system
- Kimeridgian Kimmeridgean - in geology, the basal division of the Upper Oolites in the Jurassic system - this one is still valid
- Llandeilo Group - subdivision of the British Ordovician
- Llandovery Group - division of the Silurian in Britain
- Ludlow Group or Ludlovian - in geology, the uppermost ubdivision of the Silurian rocks
- Marnian Epoch - period usually called in France the Gallic
- Neocomian - in geology, the name given to the lowest stage of the Cretaceous
- Purbeckian - in geology, the highest and youngest member of the Jurassic system
Taxonomy
Animals and etc.
- Campodea - a small whitish wingless insect, Campodea staphylinus is best known species
- Chaetopoda - taxonomic class including the majority of the Annelida, ca. 1911 - may be out of use now
- Chaetosomatida - small group of minute, free-living, aquatic organisms that are close to the Nematoda
- Cock-of-the-rock - birds of the genus Rupicola, subfamily Rupicolinae of the Cotingas
- Cyclostomata - or Marsipobranchii, a group of fishes including the ordinary lampreys and hagfish (likely an obsolete term)
- Dendrocometes - a genus in Suctoria
- Entomostraca - zoological term; some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia in it; no longer in technical use
- Filander - the name by which the Aru Island wallaby (Macropus brunii) was first described
- Fire brat - small insect, Thermobia or Thermophila furnorum
- Ganodonta - a group of North American Eocene mammals of uncertain affinity
- Goramy - Osphromenus olfax, reputed to be one of the best-flavored freshwater fishes ...Osphromenus
- Haplodrili class Archiannelida, see Annelid
- Jumping-mouse - Zapus hudsonius, Zapodidae
- Lacewing fly - insects of the families Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae
- Lantern Fly - insects of the Hemiptera
- Mantis fly - family Mantispidae
- Mole-Shrew - any individual of the genera Urotriclius and Uropsilus, see Insectivore
- But there's also the American Shrew Mole; so a disambiguation page is needed. Gdr 00:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- Morillon - name commonly given by fowlers to the female or immature male of the goldeneye (duck)
- A French word for various ducks in the genus Aythya, especially the Tufted Duck (not the goldeneye at all). Best left unlinked, since it's also a village in the Haute Savoie and a surname. Gdr 13:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- Mormyr - Mormyridae, a family of the Malacopterygian fishes
- Mouse-Bird - genus Colius
- Muraena - an eel common in the Mediterranean, Muraena picta?
- Musk-Shrew - genus Crocidura of the family Soricidae
- Myzostomida - group of small parasitic worms which live on crinoid echinoderms
- Odontornithes - zoological term proposed for birds possessed of teeth
- Palaeotherium - name applied by Cuvier to the remains of ungulate mammals from the Lower Oligocene gypsum quarries of Paris
- Keep if the term is still applied, otherwise redirect to correct term.--nixie 11:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
- Pecora - group of ruminating artiodactyle ungulates represented by oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, deer, giraffes, &c. (Ruminatia) Peccary?
- Pentastomida or Linguatulina; in 1911 regarded as highly modified degenerate Arachnida of the order Acari
- Pluto Monkey - a guenon, Cercopithecus leucampyx
- Pouched Mouse - "colonial" name for any member of the polyprotodont marsupial genus Phascologale
- Pout - also whiting-pout or bib (Gadus luscus), a fish of the family Gadidae
- Ribbon fishes - (Trachypteridae), a family of marine fishes
- Snakefly - name given to the neuropterous order Raphidiodea
- Souslik - Spermophilus citillus or Citillus citillus, European burrowing rodent mammal
Plants
- Bouvardia - genus of plant in the order Rubiaceae
- Buchu of order Rutaceae - synonyms are Agathosma betulina and Barosma betulina
- Cimicifuga - genus of flowers in the order Ranunculales
- Dictyogens - proposed botanical name for a class including certain families of Monocotyledons which have net-veined leaves. Obsolete.
- Durra - a cereal grass, Sorghum vulgare, see Sorghum
- Elecampane - Inula helenium, a member of the Wort plants
- Elephants-Foot, aka. Hottentot's Bread - popular name for the plant Testudinaria elephantipes, syn Dioscorea elephantipes
- Funkia - genus of plants in the order Liliaceae
- Lace-bark tree - Lagetta lintearia
- Laurustinus - an evergreen shrub, Viburnum Tinus L., Viburnum, family Caprifoliaceae
- Polyanthus - one of the oldest of the florists flowers, is probably derived from Polyanthus variabilis
- Richardia - a small plant genus of the ord. Araceae
- Sabicu Wood - the produce of a large leguminous tree, Lysiloma Sabicu, a native of Cuba
- Sapan Wood - a soluble red dyewood from a tree belonging to the leguminous genus Caesalpinia
- Satin-wood - a beautiful light-colored hard wood, having a rich, silky luster, Chioroxylon Swietenia, order Meliaceae
Microorganisms
- Difflugia - a genus in Amoebozoa
- Endospora - group or class of the Sporozoa
- Epistylis - in zoology, a genus of pentrichous Infusoria
- Opalina - a genus of Protozoa
- Proteomyxa - a group of Protozoa Sarcodina
- This is an obsolete group, variable in composition and not often used. I'm not sure what should be done with it. Josh
- The thing to do with obsolete taxa that don't correspond well to any modern taxon is to write a short article explaining what the name referred to, why it is not longer used, and how the organisms are now classified; see Simia, Thecodont, Quadrumana for examples. Gdr 21:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- Vampyrella - a genus of azoosporous Proteomyxa (now considered a vampyrellid)
