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  1. Mauled by a rhinoceros: the final years of Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1824) in India

    Article • Zoosystema, July 2019, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  2. Lamare Picuqot and the hornless rhinoceros

    Article • Mammalia, April 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  3. Edward Barlow's depiction of a living rhinoceros in transit to London in 1683

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  4. A price list of birds collected by Alfred Russel Wallace inserted in The Ibis of 1863

    Article • Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, December 2018, British Ornithologists' Club

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  5. On Temminck's tailless Ceylon Junglefowl, and how Darwin denied their existence

    Article • Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, December 2017, British Ornithologists' Club

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  6. The zoological contributions of Andrew Smith (1797–1872) with an annotated bibliography and a numerical analysis of newly described animal species

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  7. The correct name of the South-central black rhinoceros isDiceros bicornis keitloa(A.Smith, 1836)

    Article • African Zoology, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  8. The lives of three rhinoceroses exhibited in London 1790–1814

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  9. The illustrations in A. R. Wallace'sMalay archipelago(1869) and in a much-enhanced French translation inLe tour du monde(1870–1873)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  10. Rhino systematics in the times of Linnaeus, Cuvier, Gray and Groves

    Article • May 2015, ANU Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  11. An historical retrospective study of black rhinoceroses Diceros bicornis Linné, 1758 in Italian zoos: a useful integration of cross-institutional studies?

    Article • Der Zoologische Garten, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  12. The birth of the first Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814) – London Docks 1872

    Article • Der Zoologische Garten, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  13. The first historical record of a rhinoceros in Togo

    Article • Mammalia, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  14. In Alfred Russel Wallace's Shadow: His Forgotten Assistant, Charles Allen (1839-1892)

    Article • Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  15. A new theory to explain the receipt of Wallace's Ternate Essay by Darwin in 1858

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, December 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  16. Charles Darwin's tinamou egg

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2010, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  17. The impact of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883 on the population of Rhinoceros sondaicus in Ujung Kulon, with details of rhino observations from 1857 to 1949

    Article • Journal of Threatened Taxa, January 2010, Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  18. The impact of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883 on the population of Rhinoceros sondaicus in Ujung Kulon, with details of rhino observations from 1857 to 1949

    Article • Journal of Threatened Taxa, January 2010, Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  19. Robert Jacob Gordon's original account of the African Black rhinoceros

    Article • Journal of Zoology, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  20. MEHOS, D. C.Science and culture for members only: the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth centuryMehos, D. C.Science and culture for members only: the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam: 2006. Pp 208;...

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2007, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  21. A chronological survey of bibliographical and iconographical sources on rhinoceroses in southern Africa from 1795 to 1875: reconstructing views on classification and changes in distribution

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  22. The ornithological cabinet of Jean-Baptiste Bécoeur and the secret of the arsenical soap

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2006, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  23. Boeseman, M. and De Ligny, W.Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798) and his contributions to the natural sciences, with emphasis on zoology. Zoologische verhandelingenno.349Boeseman, M. and De Ligny, W.Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798) and his contributions to the ...

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2005, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  24. Review of the European perception of the African rhinoceros

    Article • Journal of Zoology, April 2005, Wiley

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  25. FAUST, I.Zoologische Einblattdrucke und Flugschriften vor 1800Faust, I.Zoologische Einblattdrucke und Flugschriften vor 1800. BandV:Unpaarhufer, Nashörner, Tapire, Pferdeartige, Sammelblätter, Monster. Generalregister zu BandI–V. Anton Hiersemann Verla...

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2004, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  26. Historical records of the Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in northern India and Pakistan

    Article • Zoos Print Journal, October 2002, Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  27. The quest for Roualeyn Gordon Cumming's rhinoceros horns

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 2002, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  28. The quest for Roualeyn Gordon Cumming's rhinoceros horns

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 2002, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  29. CHAPMAN, J.The art of rhinoceros horn carving in China. Christie's Books Ltd., London: 1999. Pp 288. Price £ 85. ISBN 0-903432-57-9.

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 2001, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  30. William Daniell's depictions of the rhinoceros in India

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1999, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  31. DiSILVESTRO, R. L. The African elephant. Twilight in Eden . (A National Audubon Society Book). John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York: 1991. Pp xviii, 206; illustrated. Price: £ 19.95. ISBN: 0-471-53207-X.

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 1993, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  32. A. DELEGORGUE. Travels in southern Africa, volume I . (Translated by F. Webb, with introduction and index by S. J. Alexander and C. de B. Webb. (Killie Campbell Library Africana Publications no 5.) Killie Campbell Africana Library & University of Nata...

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1991, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  33. J. H. BECKING. Henri Jacob Victor Sody (1892–1959). His life and work, a biographical and bibliographical study . E. J. Brill, Leiden: 1989. Pp viii, 272; illustrated. Price: Hfl 100. ISBN 90-04-08687-0.

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1991, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  34. P. SMIT with the assistance of A. P. M. SANDERS and J. P. F. van der VEER (Eds.) Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Editions Rodopi B. V., Amsterdam: 1986. Pp x, 340; illustrated. Price: Hfl70. ISBN 90-6203...

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1989, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  35. The Indo-Chinese rhinoceros

    Article • Oryx, October 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  36. TheDescriptiones Animalium(1784) prepared by C.F. Hornstedt on a journey to the East Indies

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1988, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  37. The scientific names of the South African steenbok and grysbok (Raphicerus campestris and R. melanotis)

    Article • Mammalia, January 1988, De Gruyter

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  38. Euryotis brantsii A. Smith, 1834 (currently Parotomys brantsii; Mammalia, Rodentia): proposed conservation of the specific name

    Article • The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, January 1988, Smithsonian Institution

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  39. The zoological notes by Johann Reinhold and George Forster included in Buffon'sHistoire Naturelle(1782)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1985, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  40. Bibliography of the Rhinoceros: An Analysis of the Literature on the Recent Rhinoceroses in Culture, History, and Biology. L. C. Rookmaaker

    Article • Isis, September 1984, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  41. Histoire du rhinocéros de Versailles (1770-1793)

    Article • Revue d histoire des sciences, January 1983, PERSEE Program

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  42. Petrus Camper’s Study of the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Sondaicus) and its Influence on Georges Cuvier

    Article • Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, January 1982, Brill

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  43. Early rhinoceros systematics

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 1981, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  44. Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1978, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  45. Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1978, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  46. The Distribution and Status of the Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis, in Borneo — A Review

    Article • Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, January 1977, Brill

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  47. An early engraving of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis (L.)) made by Jan Wandelaar

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 1976, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  48. Rhinoceros sondaicus: van Strien, N.J., Steinmetz, R., Manullang, B., Sectionov, Han, K.H., Isnan, W., Rookmaaker, K., Sumardja, E., Khan, M.K.M. & Ellis, S.

    Article • IUCN

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker

  49. Ceratotherium simum White Rhinoceros (Grass Rhinoceros, Square-lipped Rhinoceros) : Fr. Rhinoceros blanc; Ger. Breitmaul-Nashorn

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Kees Rookmaaker