Article ID: CBB000100542

Cataloguing power: Delineating “competent naturalists” and the meaning of species in the British Museum (2001)

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Description Examines the nineteenth-century species debate at the British Museum and John Edward Gray's (1849-1915) solution.


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Authors & Contributors
Stamos, David N.
Dagg, Joachim
Bernardi, Massimo
Menegon, Michele
Fattorini, Simone
Bellati, Adriana
Concepts
Species concept (biology)
Biology
Evolution
Darwinism
Natural selection
Classification in biology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Ukraine
Americas
Germany
Canada
Institutions
British Museum. Natural History
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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