The specimen dealer: Entrepreneurial natural history in America's gilded age

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 493-534

  Barrow Jr , Mark V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collecting; Entrepreneurial natural history; Frank B. Webster; Frank H. Lattin; Fred T. Jencks; Henry A. Ward; James M. Southwick; Merchant naturalists; Natural history; Natural history dealers; Specimen dealers; Taxidermists; Taxidermy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034451991     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004856813466     Document Type: Review

References (185)

1. J. W. P. Jenks
2. James Mortimer Southwick
3. Editorial notes
4. How a trade was chosen by the throwing of a stone
5. Editorial
6. Notes and news: Entomological gleanings from all quarters of the globe
7. A visit to Ward's
8. He was a farmer's son: A biographical sketch of a rising young naturalist
9. From a Worcester, Mass., newspaper
10. Was an ornithologist
11. Science, popular culture, and profit: Peale's Philadelphia Museum
12. Gentlemanly specialists in the age of professionalization: The first century of ornithology at Harvard's Museum of comparative zoology
13. Reminiscences
14. From museum research to laboratory biology: The transformation of natural history into academic biology
15. The darwinian legacy in the pacific northwest: Seattle's young naturalists' society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology
16. The status of the black gyrfalcon as a long island bird
17. Biogeography and empire
18. A bibliography of scarce or out of print North American amateur and trade periodicals devoted more or less to ornithology
19. John Krider: A typical professional collector, 1838-1878
20. Wallace in the field
21. Chicago comes of age: The world's Columbian exposition and the birth of the field museum
22. John G. Bell
23. Spencer F. Baird and his collectors
24. The role of F. W. Putnam in the founding of the field museum
25. Joseph Marshall Wade: An appreciation
26. The development of taxidermy and the history of ornithology
27. Walter Bradford Barrows
28. American showmen and European dealers: Commerce in wild animals in nineteenth-century America
29. A list of American journals omitted from Bolton's catalogue of scientific and technical periodicals, 1665-1895
30. Alfred Wallace, the gentle trader: Collecting in Amazonia and the Malay Archipelago, 1848-1862
31. 'Yours for science': The Smithsonian Institution's correspondents and the shape of the scientific community in nineteenth-century America
32. Frank H. Lattin
33. The decline of the memory palace: The parlor after 1890
34. 'Through books to nature': Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement
35. Origin
36. The king of the museum-builders
37. Oology vs. philately
38. The Roseate Spoonbill in Florida
39. Hunting in Florida in 1874
40. Cabinet notes
41. A word to young collectors
42. The Ph.D. machine: Building on the collegiate base
43. Henry A. Ward: The merchant naturalist and American museum development
44. Nature study in North America and Australia, 1890-1945: International connections and local implementations
45. Albert E. Foote, the naturalist - A Michigan alumnus
46. The Knights of Audubon
47. Jottings
48. Jottings
49. Oliver Davie's eggs
50. To my friends and patrons
51. 20,000 March Oologists
52. To my friends and patrons
53. Herbert Knowles Morrison
54. A letter to oologists of America
55. The collecting habit
56. An historical review of bird taxidermy in Britain
57. Henry Walter Bates: His life and contributions to biology
58. Harry Alvin Cash
59. George Kruck Cherrie
60. The appearance of academic biology in late nineteenth-century America
61. The beauty and menace of the Japanese cherry trees: Conflicting visions of American ecological independence
62. William D. Averell
63. Rollo Beck - Old-School collector, member of an endangered species
64. Death of Frank Blake Webster
65. Ornithology
66. The science education of an enlightened entrepreneur: Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum, 1784-1827
67. Walter Allen Angell
68. Craft vs. commodity, mess vs. transcendence: How the right tool became the wrong one in the case of taxidermy and natural history
69. Darwin and his finches: The evolution of a legend
70. Old times with the birds: Autobiographical notes
71. In memoriam: Frederick Augustas Lucas
72. In the days before the club: Some Philadelphia bird collections and collectors
73. Some old Philadelphia bird collectors and taxidermists
74. The urn and the tree: A commentary on the early days of Carnegie museum
75. The Milwaukee City Museum
76. An announcement
77. Natural history business
78. Removal
79. The oologist: Its history from the commencement
80. Bird taxidermy and the origin of the habitat diorama