ed tem urbed by its tendency tos and animals ily vulgar. ts supposed diuretic properties, and ot, naked ladies, tcoions may untingly survive inEnglis. tance, does not refer to t all events, it  t tural sciences ain dismay indiscovering t ted Prince of Botany exts ions asClitoria, Fornicata, andVulva.

    Over tly dropped (t all: t still anso Crepidula fornicata) and many otsintroduced as tural sciences greicular temered by troduction of additional uralists for over a o use in the 1750s and 1760s.

    But p coined until 1876 (by t reated as intercil early in tietury. For a time zoologists usedfamily s placed order, to the occasional confusion of nearly everyone.

    1Linnaeus o six categories: mammals, reptiles, birds, fiss, and “vermes,” or  didn’t fit into t five. From tset it  t putting lobsters and so tegory as isfactory, and various neegories sucacea ed.

    Unfortunately tions  uniformly applied from nation to nation. Inan attempt to reestablisis of rules called tricklandian Code, but té Zoologiquecountered s oing code. Meano use tion of Systema Naturae as tsnaming, ration used else many American birdsspent teentury logged in different genera from their avian cousins in Europe.

    Not until 1902, at an early meeting of ternational Congress of Zoology, did naturalistsbegin at last to s of compromise and adopt a universal code.

    taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s abattleground. Even today tem t people