Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the Emergence of Systematics

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Quotations and Translations Introduction  1 Portraits of Coenraad Jacob Temminck  2 On Dutch Natural History  3 Summary of the Chapters  4 A Word of Caution: On Definitions part 1: Birds, Cabinets, and Museums 1 From Catalogs to Monographs  1 Exotic Birds on Cupboards and Plates  2 François Levaillant and Bernhard Meyer  3 From Listing to Classifying  4 Temminck’s Earliest Monographs 2 From Collector to Director  1 Appointments and Politics  2 The Direction of ’s Lands Kabinet  3 Collections for the Universities  4 Building Up a Network  5 The Concept of a National Museum 3 National Museum, National Expeditions  1 The Birth of ’s Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie  2 Temminck’s Directorate  3 Colonial Nature  4 A Worldwide Web of Collectors 4 A Place for Systematics  1 The Museum’s Scientific Output  2 Temminck’s Podium  3 The Geography of Systematics Part 2: Zoological Classification: 1800–1850 5 Patterns, Laws, and Types  1 Geographical Patterns and the “Type” Concept  2 Temminck’s Law versus Buffon’s Law  3 On the Origin and Immutability of Species  4 After Temminck’s Law 6 Systematics Wars  1 Temminck’s Debates  2 Nomenclatural Chaos  3 Establishing Genera  4 The Search for a Natural Classification System  5 The ‘Parliamentary Practice’ 7 Systematics and Natural History: 1800–1850  1 Defining ‘Natural History’  2 The Issue of Philosophical Arguments  3 The Status of Anatomy and Physiology  4 Systematics within Natural History Conclusion: The Emergence of Systematics Appendix Bibliography Index