< Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
TEMMINCK, Konrad Jacob (1778–1857), keeper of the Leyden museum of natural history, was especially distinguished as an ornithologist, and was the author of many magnificently illustrated systematic works. See Ornithology, vol. xviii. p. 11 sq.
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