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Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century (2020)

Ville, Simon (Author)
Wright, Claire (Author)
Philp, Jude (Author)

Journal of the History of Biology
Volume: 53
Issue: 3
Pages: 345-375

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09610-9

DOI: 10.1007/s10739-020-09610-9

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Specimens Specimen exchange International trade Collectors and collecting Natural history 19th century Sydney (Australia) Macleay, William John

Much of our knowledge about the nineteenth-century natural history boom resides with the collectors themselves and their collections. We know much less about the conduct of the global trade that made collecting possible. That such a trade occurred in the face of significant obstacles of distance, variable prices, inadequate information, and diverse agents makes our knowledge deficit the more significant. William John Macleay, based in Sydney, built his significant natural history collection by trading locally as well as across the globe. Our study of Macleay measures his complete set of trading transactions at a time of rapid expansion of his collection. It analyses how he chose between different forms of exchange and agreed fair value in order to complete long-distance specimen trading.

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Article Simon Ville; Claire Wright; Jude Philp (2020) Correction to: Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 377-378). unapi

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