Fine Language at Fault
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Botany, Zoology, Natural History, Expertise, Class |
Discussing a Banffshire Journal report of a shoemaker, argues that his claimed mastery of 'ornithology, zoology, conchology and botany' indicates that he possesses 'brains which would raise him at least to the level of a journeyman, and above that of cobbler'. | |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]