Misplaced Pages

#973026

7-850: In 1875, he became curator at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (today Naturalis ) in Leiden . In 1884 he followed Hermann Schlegel as director of the museum and as editor of the journal Notes from the Leyden Museum . In 1895 he was president of the 3rd International Congress of Zoology in Leiden and he was among the founding members of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature besides Philip Lutley Sclater , Raphaël Blanchard , Julius Victor Carus , and Charles Wardell Stiles . Jentink's main research field

14-520: A Dutch scientist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a zoologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie ( National Museum of Natural History ) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden , the Netherlands . It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from

21-399: A few opportunities for guided tours, attending lectures, and temporary exhibitions. In 1976, a paper, "Towards a New Museum", was produced. This led to the museum taking on more of a central curating role, lending pieces from its collection to other museums. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie merged in 1984. A permanent public exhibition

28-477: A merger of several existing collections including Temminck's own collection. This happened on the initiative of Coenraad Jacob Temminck , who saw the museum primarily as a research institute for the University of Leiden . The total collection was already quite large at the time, and continued to grow from foreign expeditions and by obtaining private collections from inheritances. The location is currently used by

35-785: Is a hybrid between the greater spot-nosed monkey and the moustached guenon . Jentink published the Catalogue ostéologique des mammifères (1887), the Catalogue systématique des mammifères (1892) and Mammals Collected by the Members of the Humboldt Bay and the Merauke River Expeditions:Nova Guinea (1907). Oldfield Thomas named the Jentink's duiker (1892) and the Jentink's squirrel (1887) in honor of Fredericus Anna Jentink. This article about

42-549: The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden . The location was originally a hofje called Hof van Zessen . In 1815 plans were made to build a museum there (the first building called a "museum" in Leiden). It opened in 1820, and until 1913, the museum normally opened to the public on Sundays. In 1913, the museum moved to a new building, with very little room available for exhibits, and in 1950, this room was also closed. After that, there were

49-648: Was the taxonomy of mammals, where he described several marsupial , bat , and rodent taxa. In 1886, he described the guenon species Cercopithecus signatus (sometimes known as Jentink's guenon) on the basis of one deceased specimen which was obtained by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie from the Diergaarde Blijdorp in Rotterdam in 1877. The original provenance of this species is still unknown but alternatively it might be possible that it

#973026