Another French encyclopedia holds that the German temperament generally can be described as the deep and diverse action of romanticism on German musicians, and that there is only one true representative of Romanticism in French music, Hector Berlioz, while in Italy, the sole great name of musical Romanticism is Giuseppe Verdi, a sort of [Victor] Hugo of opera, gifted with a real genius for dramatic effect.
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent. Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT First published on Tuesday 23 August 2011 17.00 EDT. Humans share the planet with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life, according to what is being billed as the most accurate estimate yet of life on Earth.
Biologists have yet to describe many species of plants, invertebrate animals and lichens. So the number of these species known to science increases substantially every year. The greatest species diversity exists among insects, which account for about one million of the earth's species known to science. Mammals make up one of the smallest groups, with just 5,513 members. Altogether the earth's oceans, lakes, continents and islands support over 66,000 identified species of vertebrate animals and more than 307,000 species of plants.