Aslib Proceedings: Volume 14 Issue 8
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CLASSIFICATION : AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM: Proceedings of an Aslib Conference
BARBARA R.F. KYLEThe Chairman welcomed delegates on behalf of Aslib. She recalled that at the international conference on classification held some years before at Dorking, there had been a…
ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
A.J. CAINLiving organisms are immensely complicated things, most of which (except the minutest) present at a glance a vast variety of structural and other characters that can be considered…
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION
S.M. WALTERSLike the classification of animals, botanical classification was formalized by Linnaeus against a background of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. The hierarchical system, with a…
CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS
B.W. AVERYFrom the first emergence of civilizations based on agriculture, variations in the nature and productive capacity of the soil were recognized by farmers, and names, usually based…
CLASSIFICATION In SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
EDMUND R. LEACHMuch that has been said by other speakers is applicable also to Social Anthropology. This subject emerged as a distinctive academic discipline in the period 1860–65 and was the…
CLASSIFICATION FOR DOCUMENTATION
B.C. VICKERYDocumentation is faced with the following problem. On the one hand we have the world's literature, in many languages; on the other, an inquirer with a question. Documentation has…
The USE OF MATHEMATICS
P.H.A. SNEATHMathematics, in one form or another, has been used in classification from an early period, e.g. Bayes's formula, Boolean algebra, Cartesian co‐ordinates. There has been renewed…
SELECTIONS FROM The RECENT LITERATURE
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