Naturalists in the Field

Arthur MacGregor, D.Litt (1999), formerly a curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He has published Curiosity and Enlightenment (2007), Animal Encounters (2012) and has edited some 13 other books and c.130 articles. He is editor of the Journal of the History of Collections (OUP).

Foreword

 Sir David Attenborough

Editor’s Preface

 Arthur MacGregor

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors



1 Introduction

 Arthur MacGregor



2 New World and Other Exotic Animals in the Italian Renaissance: the Menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and His Son, Pope Leo X

 Marco Masseti



3 The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague

 Annemarie Jordan Gschwend



4 “Judge by experience and by learninge”: the Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568)

 Marie Addyman



5 On Northern Shores: Sixteenth-Century Observations of Fish and Seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic)

 Florike Egmond



6 Collecting and Preserving Fishes: an Historical Perspective

 Peter Davis



7 Into the Wild: Botanical Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century

 Florike Egmond



8 “Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell”: James Petiver’s Directions for Collecting Natural Curiosities

 Charles E. Jarvis



9 Linnaean Scholars Out of Doors: So Much to Name, Learn and Profit From

 Hanna Hodacs



10 “Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit”: Naturalists in the Pacific in the Age of Cook

 Glyn Williams



11 Catesby’s Birds

 Shepard Krech III



12 The Hudson’s Bay Company and Its Collectors

 C. Stuart Houston



13 European Enlightenment in India: an Episode of Anglo-German Collaboration in the Natural Sciences on the Coromandel Coast, Late 1700s–Early 1800s

 Arthur MacGregor



14 Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment

 Han F. Vermeulen



15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses

 Felix Driver



16 More Than One Way to Skin a Wombat: the How and Why of Collecting in the South Seas

 Rob Huxley



17 William Burchell in Southern Africa, 1811-1815

 Malgosia Nowak-Kemp



18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil

 Stephen A. Harris



19 From Tubs to Flying Boats: Episodes in Transporting Living Plants

 E. Charles Nelson



20 Faunal Collecting, Inventorying and Systematizing in the Marine Environment: a Historical, Mostly British, Perspective

 P.G. Moore



21 Gathering Spirals: on the Naturalist and Shell Collector Hugh Cuming

 Helen Scales



22 Bat-Fowlers, Pooters and Cyanide Jars: a Historical Overview of Insect Collecting and Preservation

 Peter C. Barnard



23 Nets, Labels and Boards: Materiality and Natural History Practices in Continental European Manuals on Insect Collecting 1688-1776

 Dominik Hünniger



24 Collecting Abroad, Preserving at Home: Titian Ramsay Peale II, American Entomologist and Collector

 Robert McCracken Peck



25 John Russell Malloch: Amateur Naturalist to Professional Taxonomist

 E. Geoffrey Hancock



26 Reflections on Some Practical Aspects of Collecting During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 Pat Morris



27 Following the Lure: Field Experience and Professional Opportunities in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Vertebrate Paleontology

 Paul D. Brinkman



28 Evolving Contexts of Collecting: the Australian Experience

 A.M. Lucas



29 Virtual Collecting: Camera-Trapping and the Assembly of Population Data in Twenty-First-Century Biology

 Sarah Elmeligi, Ian Convery, Volker Decker Deecke and Owen Nevin



30 The Psychology of Finding and Recognizing Wildlife

 Mark Lawley



Appendix: Key Texts in the History of Field Collecting

Index