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New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to an

Easy to use and filled with addictive--and highly useful--information about the people whose names will be carried into the future on the backs of the world's r

New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to an

The Eponym Dictionary is a series of brief but concise biographies of all those people after whom fish have been named in both the vernacular and scientific nam

Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Suc