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  • Most naturalists, with the exception of a few, such as Temminck, believe that all the breeds have proceeded from a single species; but authority on such

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • The status and distribution of the Iberian Lynx Felis pardina (Temminck) in Coto Doñana area, Spain.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • He's got Lucien B0naparte, Temminck, Wilson, Ord, and a few I've never heard of like Wagler, who apparently also named the piping plover Charadrius Okenii.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • When I was learning the herpetofauna of Europe as a teenager, Hydromantes (= Speleomantes) was always said to include just two species (H. italicus Dunn, 1923 and H. genei (Temminck & Schegel, 1838)).

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • He's got Lucien B0naparte, Temminck, Wilson, Ord, and a few I've never heard of like Wagler, who apparently also named the piping plover Charadrius Okenii.

    more coffee musings 2008

  • Orang – Utan, cited by Temminck, measured, when standing upright, 4 ft.; but he mentions having just received news of the capture of an Orang 5 ft. 3 in. high.

    Essays 2007

  • ‘Zoological Transactions’ for 1835, and by Temminck in his ‘Monographies de Mammalogie’.

    Essays 2007

  • Temminck, in his Monograph of the Orang, says that he has just received news of the capture of

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • The largest Orang measured by Temminck was 4 feet high.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Temminck insists on the utility or even necessity of this practice in certain groups of birds; and it has been followed by several entomologists and botanists.

    XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Classification 1909

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