b. of bodies
c. of noted events and periods,
N. B. This does not include names of genera, species, etc., in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, which in an ordinary catalogue should not be capitalized; as digitalis purpurea, raia batis, the horse.
3. for adjectives and other derivatives from proper names when they have a direct reference to the person, place, etc., from which they are derived.
4. for titles of honor standing instead of a proper name.
Ex.
- 1b. Reply to the Essay on the discovery of America.
- 1c. Institutio legalis; or, Introduction to the laws of England. But it is better, when the sense will permit, to omit the “or” and consider the second title as a clause explanatory of the first, as Institutio legalis; introduction to the laws of England.
- 2b. Society for Promoting the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
- 2c. Boston Massacre, French Revolution, Gunpowder Plot, Middle Ages.
- 4. The Earl of Derby, but John Stanley, earl of Derby. {81}
206. In foreign languages, use initial capitals
- 5. for 1a, 1b, 1c.
- 6. (Persons and places)
- a. In German and Danish for every noun and for adjectives derived from names of persons, but for no others.
- b. In the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese) and in Swedish and Greek for proper names of persons and places, but not for adjectives derived from them.
- c. in Latin and Dutch for proper names and also for the adjectives derived from them, but not for common nouns.
- 7. (Bodies) as in English, except that in German and Danish only the nouns are to be capitalized, and adjectives when they begin the name.
- 8. (Events and periods) as in English, with the same exception.
- 9. (Titles) in German and Danish, but not in the Romance languages, in Latin or in Greek.
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