Donovan was, at first, the very successful author of a number of natural history titles, including Natural History of British Birds ( 1792 – 97 ), Natural History of British Insects ( 1792 – 1813 ), Natural History of British Fishes ( 1802 – 08 ) and the two-volume Descriptive Excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire in the Year 1804, and the Four Preceding Summers ( 1805 ) and the short-lived Botanical Review, or the Beauties of Flora ( London, 1789 – 90 ).

Descriptive titles " Chartered Insurer " and " Chartered Insurance Practitioner " allowed by the Privy Council.

More recent monograph-length grammars of Sumerian include Dietz Otto Edzard's 2003 Sumerian Grammar and Bram Jagersma's 2010 A Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian ( currently digital, but soon to be printed in revised form by Oxford University Press ).

Descriptive marginalism asserts that choice amongst the specific means by which various anticipated specific states-of-the-world ( outcomes ) might be affected is governed only by the distinctions amongst those specific outcomes ; prescriptive marginalism asserts that such choice ought to be so governed.

* Descriptive ethics claims, implicitly or explicitly, that amorality ( not to be confused with immorality ) is moral.

For blind viewers, audio description ( Descriptive Video Service, DVS ) can be and usually is transmitted along with captions.

Descriptive marks can be made distinctive by the addition of other elements to the name or logo.

B. Frazer in his book, An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia and Afghanistan, which he published in 1843, says: " According to their own tradition they believe themselves to be descendants from the Hebrews … they preserved the purity of their religion until they met with Islam.

Among his other works the following may be mentioned: A Geological Classification of Rocks with Descriptive Synopses of the Species and Varieties, comprising the Elements of Practical Geology ( 1821 ); The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, in a series of letters to Sir Walter Scott ( 4 vols.

First, the Descriptive Identification or element contains a description of the collection as a whole, including the creator ( which may be an individual or an organization ), size ( usually given in linear feet ), inclusive dates, language ( s ), and an abstract or brief description.

Two sourdines belonging to the Museum of the Brussels Conservatoire, said to be facsimiles of some instruments belonging to the emperor Maximilian I's band, are reproduced in Captain U. R. Day's Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments ( London, 1891 ).

Thus, Descriptive research cannot be used to create a causal relationship, where one variable affects another.

Descriptive botanical names are names that are governed by Article 16 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ( ICBN ), which rules that a name above the rank of family may be either descriptive or formed from the name of an included family.

* Dave Snowden, “ Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self-Awareness ,” Journal of Knowledge Management 6, no.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

Source of " Today " map: compiled by George Draffan from roadless area map in The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States, by Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke ( Harmony Books, 1992 ).

* Descriptive list of Moog patents by J. Donald Tillman

* In the Myst series of computer games and books, the only way to destroy the link to an Age is to destroy its Descriptive Book, usually by burning it.

His Anatomie Descriptive is distinguished by clear and natural arrangement, precise and accurate description, and the general ingenuity with which the subject is treated.

* Beaumont Newhall, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerreotype and the Diorama by Daguerre, New York 1971

* Descriptive Sociology ; or Groups of Sociological Facts, parts 1 – 8, classified and arranged by Spencer, compiled and abstracted by David Duncan, Richard Schepping, and James Collier ( London, Williams & Norgate, 1873 – 1881 ).

It is often used for an alternate language ( hence giving the facetious " Spanish audio program " expansion to the acronym ), or for the Descriptive Video Service ( DVS ) offered in the U. S. by PBS, along with broadcasting the local NOAA Weather Radio service or a local National Public Radio station at times where translation or DVS is not needed.

The term first appeared in Names ' Names: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Onymicon by George H. Scheetz.

* Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington

The term first appeared in print in 1988 in Names ' Names: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Onymicon by George H. Scheetz.

* Descriptive ( or synchronic ) linguistics: Describing dialects ( forms of a language used by a specific speech community ).

* Bonnemains, J., Forsyth, E. and Smith, B. Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800 — 1804 With a Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings and Paintings of Australian Subjects by C. – A.

Descriptive geometry is the branch of geometry which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, by using a specific set of procedures.

Shortly before his death Jago revised his poems, and they were published in 1784 by his friend, John Scott Hylton, as Poems Moral and Descriptive.

* 1994-J. R. R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson

* House of the Lord: Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the Salt Lake Temple by George Q Cannon, published in 1893

* Mackenzie Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts and Other Articles by H. H. Wilson, 1828 at Google Books.

* Mackenzie Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts and Other Articles by H. H. Wilson, 1828 at Internet Archive.

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Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral ; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong ; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.

Descriptive relativists do not necessarily advocate the tolerance of all behavior in light of such disagreement ; that is to say, they are not necessarily normative relativists.

* Gilman, S., Contributions to Literature ; Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical, and Poetical, Crosby, Nichols, and Company, ( Boston ), 1856.

Henslow's publications included A Catalogue of British Plants ( 1829 ; 2nd ed 1835 ); Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany ( 1835 ); Flora of Suffolk ( with E. Skepper ) ( 1866 ).

During his tenure of this chair he published two volumes of A Course of Mathematics-the first, entitled Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis and Plane Trigonometry, in 1809, and the second, Geometry of Curve Lines, in 1813 ; the third volume, on Descriptive Geometry and the Theory of Solids was never completed.

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna ; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper.

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* Substance Abuse: Descriptive scenes depicting ; the use of illegal substances, the excessive use of tobacco or the use of alcohol resulting in impairment.

The footstone of Louis Palma Di CesnolaHe is the author of Cyprus, its ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples ( 1877 ), a travel book of considerable service to the practical antiquary ; and of a Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities ( 3 volumes, 1884 – 1886 ).

* Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial Large-brass Medals ; by William Henry Smyth, 1834

Special literary and academic series developed by Hetzel include the renowned Pitt Poetry Series ; the Pitt Latin American Series ; the Pittsburgh Series in Descriptive Bibliography ; the Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies ; the Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture ; and the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in Philosophy.