Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the Emergence of Systematics (1800–1850)

Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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’
Chapter 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 of Subjects