Citations:classification

English citations of classification

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the whale, in his anatomy — there, at least, we shall be able to hit the right classification.