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The science of names or of their classification.

That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.

The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.

The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

gan of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey.

That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.

The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

That branch of zoölogy which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.

The science or description of mountains.

The right description of things. [R.] Fotherby.

An old name for paleontology.

The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

See Urology.

That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. -- Pa*læ`ti*o*log"ic*al, a.

tiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archæology .

The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.