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

Maria Eulàlia Gassó Miracle is a Collections Specialist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden. Her work focuses on the curation of Naturalis’ cultural heritage. She also conducts research on the history of nineteenth-century natural history and collections, with a particular interest in pre-Darwinian zoology.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNote on Quotations and TranslationsIntroduction1 Portraits of Coenraad Jacob Temminck2 On Dutch Natural History3 Summary of the Chapters4 A Word of Caution: On Definitionspart 1: Birds, Cabinets, and Museums1 From Catalogs to Monographs1 Exotic Birds on Cupboards and Plates2 François Levaillant and Bernhard Meyer3 From Listing to Classifying4 Temminck’s Earliest Monographs2 From Collector to Director1 Appointments and Politics2 The Direction of ’s Lands Kabinet3 Collections for the Universities4 Building Up a Network5 The Concept of a National Museum3 National Museum, National Expeditions1 The Birth of ’s Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie2 Temminck’s Directorate3 Colonial Nature4 A Worldwide Web of Collectors4 A Place for Systematics1 The Museum’s Scientific Output2 Temminck’s Podium3 The Geography of SystematicsPart 2: Zoological Classification: 1800–18505 Patterns, Laws, and Types1 Geographical Patterns and the “Type” Concept2 Temminck’s Law versus Buffon’s Law3 On the Origin and Immutability of Species4 After Temminck’s Law6 Systematics Wars1 Temminck’s Debates2 Nomenclatural Chaos3 Establishing Genera4 The Search for a Natural Classification System5 The ‘Parliamentary Practice’7 Systematics and Natural History: 1800–18501 Defining ‘Natural History’2 The Issue of Philosophical Arguments3 The Status of Anatomy and Physiology4 Systematics within Natural HistoryConclusion: The Emergence of SystematicsAppendixBibliographyIndex

"Maria Gassó Miracle’s volume fills in all the missing details about Temminck’s life and career, but it also looks at how the Linnaean system of nomenclature was developed into what we know as systematics today. […] a fascinating book […]."---- Andrew C. Kitchener, in: Archives of Natural History, November 2022, Vol. 49, No. 2: pp. 432-33.