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An Ecological Glossary

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THERE are two ways of compiling a glossary : the critical and exclusive, and the complete and impartial. Dr. Carpenter adopts the second method. Its advantage is that it brings all the varying terms and expressions together and reveals in a striking way the inconsistencies and unresolved conflicts found in a comparatively new science such as ecology. Its disadvantage is that it conceals the dead words and meanings among the living. A compromise, relegating obsolete words and meanings to smaller print or brackets seems desirable and might be suggested for future editions.

An Ecological Glossary

Compiled by J. Richard Carpenter. Pp. ix + 318. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 15s. net.

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S., B. An Ecological Glossary. Nature 144, 1030–1031 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441030b0

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