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Herpetological Collection of Maximilian, Prince of Wied (1782-1867), with Special Reference to Brazilian Materials. (Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History, No. 395).
Author: The Herpetological Collection of Maximilian, Prince of Wied (1782-1867), with Special Reference to Brazilian Materials
Author: Paulo Emilio VanzoliniPublisher:
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Prince Maximilian of Wied made important collections of reptiles and other vertebrate animals during pioneering expeditions to Brazil and North America. These were purchased for the American Museum in 1869. The present paper emphasizes Brazilian materials collected in 1815-1817. Prince Maximilian (aka Wied, Neuwied, and Prince Max) published extensively on this collection, especially in the Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien ("Contributions to the natural history of Brazil, 1825-1833")--a meticulous account of the species collected--and in Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens ("Illustrations of the natural history of Brazil, 1822-1832"). The unnumbered folio plates of the Abbildungen are so important, and so difficult to access, that the herpetological ones are resized and reprinted herein. These hand-colored plates are rare (only 300 of each were produced) and are reproduced herein "as is" with arbitrary plate numbers 1-56; this numbering approximates the organization of the present work and also the order of species presentation in volume 1 of the Beiträge. When received at AMNH, the herpetological specimens were accompanied by the Prince's handwritten manuscript list, dated 1860, with 441 numbered items. The list is not a specimen catalog but a useful index to the collection, as indicated by its title: Verzeichniss der Reptilien-Sammlung nach Duméril, Bibron, und Jan. It includes separately numbered lists of genera and of species in the collections and therefore corresponds to taxa, not to actual specimens. Wied did not designate types, a concept not yet established; Wied types, like Linnaean types, must be identified retrospectively. Our objective has been to identify the surviving types of Brazilian reptiles and amphibians in the Maximilian collection. Our starting point was forcibly the Beiträge, a work of singularly modern conformation. It may contain for each species a synonymy, a description, measurements, meristic data, and a discussion of distribution. The criteria for decision on the identification of types were fourfold: the description, the measurements, the scale counts, and the Abbildungen plates. A total of 21 primary type specimens were thus identified in the Wied collection (including some originally identified as types or cotypes). These include 15 holotypes (mostly newly identified) and six lectotypes (mostly newly designated). However, Wied had named about 61 species from his Brazilian collection, so approximately 40 primary type specimens of reptiles and amphibians are missing. Most of these never reached the American Museum; many had disappeared in Europe before Maximilian had started writing his 1860 manuscript catalogue. Wied wrote that he had been unable to preserve several specimens; some of the others may be in European museums or possibly in the remaining collection of his friend Blasius Merrem at the University of Marburg.
Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States
Author: Eleanor Jones HarveyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200807
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
Type Specimens of Brazilian Mammals Collected by Prince Maximilian Zu Wied. American Museum Novitates ; No. 2209
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Author: Hobart M Van DeusenPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014051080
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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History of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the AMNH
Author: Herpetological Papers, American Museum of Natural History
Author: Karl Patterson SchmidtPublisher:
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Category : Herpetology
Languages : en
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Herpetology of Brazil
Author: Johann Baptist von SpixPublisher:
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Category : Herpetology
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Herpetological Type-specimens in Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Author: Clarence J. McCoyPublisher:
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Catalogue of Type Specimens in the Herpetological Collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Author: James Arthur PetersPublisher:
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Category : Herpetology
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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