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General

 * 1) Alkali manufacture - Alkali
 * 2) Economic entomology – "the name given to the study of insects based on their relation to man, his domestic animals and his crops~ and, in the case of those that are injurious, of the practical methods by which they can be prevented from doing harm, or be destroyed when present." Quite a long article.
 * 3) Energetics - the study of energy, article may be out of date.
 * 4) Geometrical continuity, today called Geometric continuity - I read half of it and couldn't figure it out.  - Could be related to the continuity/limits in calculus. Kepler fans might like this one because it talks about him a lot.
 * 5) Pyrones Pyrone – the definition seems close to pyran, but I've been unable to find out if they are the same or not. Make sure to check chemical formulas with another source or a hardcopy, as many have been incorrectly scanned.
 * 6) River engineering - very long article on river engineering. The content definitely should be copied over to here, but may take some work to shape into proper content for Wikipedia.
 * 7) Transit circle; Meridian Circle - (relatively long article) an instrument for observing the time of a stars passing the meridian, at the same time measuring its angular distance from the zenith.
 * 8) Variation and Selection - related to evolution and heredity (biology); content should be copied to expand gene pool and  Natural selection, at least.

General

 * 1) Clay-with-Flints - the name given by W. Whitaker in 1861 to a peculiar deposit of stiff red, brown or yellow clay containing unworn whole flints as well as angular shattered fragments...
 * 2) Torridonian "a series of pre-Cambrian arenaceous sediments", after Loch Torridon and Torridon sandstone.

Geologic time divisions (many may be obsolete)

 * 1) Bernician Series - lower portion of the Carboniferous System
 * 2) Chellian - the first epoch of the Quaternary period when the earliest human remains are discoverable
 * 3) Cornbrash - in geology, the name applied to the uppermost member of the Bathonian stage of the Jurassic formation in England
 * 4) Keuper - in geology the third or uppermost subdivision of the Triassic system
 * 5) Kimeridgian Kimmeridgean - in geology, the basal division of the Upper Oolites in the Jurassic system - this one is still valid
 * 6) Llandeilo Group - subdivision of the British Ordovician
 * 7) Llandovery Group - division of the Silurian in Britain
 * 8) Ludlow Group or Ludlovian - in geology, the uppermost ubdivision of the Silurian rocks
 * 9) Marnian Epoch - period usually called in France the Gallic
 * 10) Neocomian - in geology, the name given to the lowest stage of the Cretaceous
 * 11) Purbeckian - in geology, the highest and youngest member of the Jurassic system

Animals and etc.

 * 1) Campodea - a small whitish wingless insect, Campodea staphylinus is best known species
 * 2) Chaetopoda - taxonomic class including the majority of the Annelida, ca. 1911 - may be out of use now
 * 3) Chaetosomatida - small group of minute, free-living, aquatic organisms that are close to the Nematoda
 * 4) Cock-of-the-rock - birds of the genus Rupicola, subfamily Rupicolinae of the Cotingas
 * 5) Cyclostomata - or Marsipobranchii, a group of fishes including the ordinary lampreys and hagfish (likely an obsolete term)
 * 6) Dendrocometes - a genus in Suctoria
 * 7) Filander - the name by which the Aru Island wallaby (Macropus brunii) was first described
 * 8) Ganodonta - a group of North American Eocene mammals of uncertain affinity
 * 9) Goramy - Osphromenus olfax, reputed to be one of the best-flavored freshwater fishes ...Osphromenus
 * 10) Haplodrili class Archiannelida, see Annelid
 * 11) Lacewing fly - insects of the families Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae
 * 12) Lantern Fly - insects of the Hemiptera
 * 13) Mantis fly - family Mantispidae
 * 14) Mole-Shrew - any individual of the genera Urotriclius and Uropsilus, see Insectivore
 * But there's also the American Shrew Mole; so a disambiguation page is needed. Gdr 00:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Morillon - name commonly given by fowlers to the female or immature male of the goldeneye (duck)
 * A French word for various ducks in the genus Aythya, especially the Tufted Duck (not the goldeneye at all). Best left unlinked, since it's also a village in the Haute Savoie and a surname. Gdr 13:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Mormyr - Mormyridae, a family of the Malacopterygian fishes
 * 2) Mouse-Bird - genus Colius
 * 3) Musk-Shrew - genus Crocidura of the family Soricidae
 * 4) Myzostomida - group of small parasitic worms which live on crinoid echinoderms
 * 5) Odontornithes - zoological term proposed for birds possessed of teeth
 * 6) Palaeotherium - name applied by Cuvier to the remains of ungulate mammals from the Lower Oligocene gypsum quarries of Paris
 * Keep if the term is still applied, otherwise redirect to correct term.--nixie 11:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Pecora - group of ruminating artiodactyle ungulates represented by oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, deer, giraffes, &c. (Ruminatia) Peccary?
 * 2) Pentastomida or Linguatulina; in 1911 regarded as highly modified degenerate Arachnida of the order Acari
 * 3) Pluto Monkey - a guenon, Cercopithecus leucampyx
 * 4) Pout - also whiting-pout or bib (Gadus luscus), a fish of the family Gadidae
 * 5) Snakefly - name given to the neuropterous order Raphidiodea
 * 6) Souslik - Spermophilus citillus or Citillus citillus, European burrowing rodent mammal

Plants

 * 1) Cimicifuga - genus of flowers in the order Ranunculales
 * 2) Dictyogens - (Obsolete) proposed botanical name for a class including certain families of Monocotyledons which have net-veined leaves.
 * 3) Elephants-Foot, aka. Hottentot's Bread - popular name for the plant Testudinaria elephantipes, syn Dioscorea elephantipes
 * 4) Funkia # now Hosta # - genus of plants in the FAMILY Liliaceae
 * 5) Polyanthus - one of the oldest of the florists flowers, is probably derived from Polyanthus variabilis

Microorganisms

 * 1) Difflugia - a genus in Amoebozoa
 * 2) Endospora - group or class of the Sporozoa
 * 3) Proteomyxa - a group of Protozoa Sarcodina
 * This is an obsolete group, variable in composition and not often used. I'm not sure what should be done with it. Josh
 * The thing to do with obsolete taxa that don't correspond well to any modern taxon is to write a short article explaining what the name referred to, why it is not longer used, and how the organisms are now classified; see Simia, Thecodont, Quadrumana for examples. Gdr 21:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Vampyrella - a genus of azoosporous Proteomyxa (now considered a vampyrellid)