[…] all scientific discoverers […] exercise a prerogative, yet under limitations; they must respect the prejudices of their fellows, and they must prove their right as nomenclators: in the scientific community, as every one knows, the claims of rival name-makers are very sharply discussed, under government of nicely-established rules.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.136

[…] the nomenclator selects the quality which he will describe […] or he gets suggestion from the locality, the situation, the circumstances of discovery; or he connects it with some still more extraneous matter […].
- Whitney (1875), a pag.85