Hayden, Survey Montana.
Webster says, that the Carboniferous age “embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and the Permian,” but the Fifth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Survey, doubtless for some good reason, changes the style to the sub-Carboniferous (v. remark under Rule 8, on “transatlantic,” etc.).
The main subject under discussion being Woman Suffrage, those words were properly capitalized in the following paragraph:
It is conceded . . . that the avowal even, of faith in the principle of Woman Suffrage, would handicap the party most seriously.
In accordance with Rule 3 was this direction touching a Report on Education:
Spell “report” with capital R, when it refers to this Report; l. c. [lower-case] in other cases.
Presidential, imperial, kingly, ducal, etc., titles are put down when used generally, but are put up when applied to persons. In the following example “an emperor” is down, while “the Emperor” is put up.
The events which now took place in the interior of Germany were such as usually happened when either the throne was without an emperor, or the Emperor without a sense of his imperial dignity.—Schiller’s Thirty Years’ War.
Beginning with President Washington and including President Harrison, the United States has had twenty-three presidents.
4. Names and appellations of the Supreme Being should be capitalized.