Describer in A Sentence

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    An unmistakable batrachian of this order, referred by its describer to Palaeobatrachus, a determination which is only provisional, has been discovered in the Kimmeridgian of the Sierra del Montsech, Catalonia (25), in a therefore somewhat older formation than the Wealden Caudata Hylaeobatrachus.

    2

    First referring it to the genus Caprimulgus, its original describer soon saw that it was no true goatsucker.

    3

    If he must be classed, he was before all things a describer - a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature.

    4

    To explain these, two alternatives are offered by the describer.