François Levaillant
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François Levaillant was a French writer, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector, travel writer, and noted ornithologist. He described many new species of birds based on birds he collected in Afric
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Illustration by Jacques Barraband for Le Vaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets
Coenraad Jacob Temminck
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Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch patrician, zoologist and museum director.
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…taxidermy till the 1950s. Over 2,000 bird skins were sent to Jacob Temminck, who had financed the expedition, and these were later studied by his son Coenraad Jacob Temminck and included in the collection of the museum at Leiden. Other specimens were kept in the cabinet of Joan Raye, heer van Breukelerwaert (1737-1823…
Temminck Coenraad Jacob 1770 1858