The question between single and double tackle was practically settled for good at the Wolverhampton trials of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1871, when Fowlers obtained all the prizes.

When writing the formula for the ionic compound, the cation comes first, followed by the anion, both with numeric subscripts to indicate the number of atoms of each.

Similarly, residents of Perth are likely to recognise the sickle-shaped leaves of their commonest snottygobble, Persoonia longifolia.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate closet taxonomist, Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.