The quinarian system was a method of zoological classification which was popular in the mid 19th century, especially among British naturalists. It was largely developed by the entomologist William Sharp Macleay in 1819.[1] The system was further promoted in the works of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, William John Swainson and Johann Jakob Kaup. Swainson's work on ornithology gave wide publicity to the idea. The system had opponents even before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), which paved the way for evolutionary trees.[2]
^Macleay, W. S. (1819). Horae entomologicae: Essays on the Annulose Animals. Vol. 1. London: S. Bagster.
^O'Hara, Robert J. (1988). "Diagrammatic Classifications of Birds, 1819–1901: Views of the Natural System in 19th-Century British Ornithology". In Ouellet, H. (ed.). Acta XIX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici. Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences. pp. 2746–59.
The quinariansystem was a method of zoological classification which was popular in the mid 19th century, especially among British naturalists. It was...
Passerellidae.[citation needed] The classification of this bird follows the quinariansystem popularized in the early 19th century to better identify birds. The...
ideas of the Quinariansystem of biological classification, and Swainson soon became a noted and outspoken proponent. The QuinarianSystem fell out of...
superior to "artificial" ones. A particularly popular idea was the Quinariansystem popularised by Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), William Sharp Macleay...
civil servant and entomologist. He was a prominent promoter of the Quinariansystem of classification. After graduating, he worked for the British embassy...
curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The obsolete Quinariansystem of biological classification attempted to group creatures into circles...
In some of his early articles, Gray adopted William Sharp Macleay's quinariansystem for classifications of molluscs (1824), butterflies (1824), echinoderms...
zoologist who popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinariansystem Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German biologist and pathologist, founder...
politician. He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinariansystem. Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as the first...
triangular diagram by which Chambers wanted to illustrate the Quinarian classification system of animals. Three mistakes in the text and the graph made this...
and entomology. He was influenced by William Sharp Macleay and his quinariansystem of classification. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1828)...
in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinariansystem. Kaup is also known for having coined popular prehistoric taxa like...
Darwin and Blyth had independently taken the term from Macleay whose Quinariansystem of classification had been popular for a time after its first publication...
established by a splinter group of the Linnean Society who favoured the Quinariansystem and was only short-lived. Five volumes were published between 1824...
Swainson further condemns Rennie's objections to the short-lived Quinariansystem of classification, which Swainson supported. The book received similar...
described the black-throated thrush. Quinariansystem proposed by the entomologist William Sharp Macleay . The system was followed by Nicholas Aylward Vigors...
outdated. He was strongly opposed to Darwinism, preferring the Quinarian taxonomic system. Hincks was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society, a society...
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