30 The Psychology of Finding and Recognizing Wildlife

In: Naturalists in the Field
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Abstract

This final essay in the present volume considers a variety of groups of organisms from a number of angles, including a discussion of the socio-economic influences that exerted an important hold – all too often ignored – on naturalists’ activities in the field. 


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Naturalists in the Field

Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Series:  Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 2
Cover Naturalists in the Field
E-Book ISBN:
9789004323841
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2018
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 New World and other Exotic Animals in the Italian Renaissance: the Menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and his Son, Pope Leo X
3 The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague
4 “Judge by experience and by learninge”: the Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568)
5 On Northern Shores: Sixteenth-Century Observations of Fish and Seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic)
6 Collecting and Preserving Fishes: a Historical Perspective
7 Into the Wild: Botanical Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century
8 “Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell”: James Petiver’s Directions for Collecting Natural Curiosities
9 Linnaean Scholars Out of Doors: So Much to Name, Learn and Profit From
10 “Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit”: Naturalists in the Pacific in the Age of Cook
11 Catesby’s Birds
12 The Hudson’s Bay Company and its Collectors
13 European Enlightenment in India: an Episode of Anglo-German Collaboration in the Natural Sciences on the Coromandel Coast, Late 1700s–Early 1800s
14 Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment
15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses
16 More Than One Way to Skin a Wombat: the How and Why of Collecting in the South Seas
17 William Burchell in Southern Africa, 1811-1815
18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil
19 From Tubs to Flying Boats: Episodes in Transporting Living Plants
20 Faunal Collecting, Inventorying and Systematizing in the Marine Environment: a Historical, Mostly British, Perspective
21 Gathering Spirals: on the Naturalist and Shell Collector Hugh Cuming
22 Bat-Fowlers, Pooters and Cyanide Jars: a Historical Overview of Insect Collecting and Preservation
23 Nets, Labels and Boards: Materiality and Natural History Practices in Continental European Manuals on Insect Collecting 1688-1776
24 Collecting Abroad, Preserving at Home: Titian Ramsay Peale Ii, American Entomologist and Collector
25 John Russell Malloch: Amateur Naturalist to Professional Taxonomist
26 Reflections on Some Practical Aspects of Collecting During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
27 Following the Lure: Field Experience and Professional Opportunities in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Vertebrate Paleontology
28 Evolving Contexts of Collecting: the Australian Experience
29 Virtual Collecting: Camera-Trapping and the Assembly of Population Data in Twenty-First-Century Biology
Appendices: Some Key Texts in the History of Field Collecting
Index

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