Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List Dutch Zoological Cabinets ... - DWC

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Collection of butterflies, birds, eggs, shells, fossils, etc, He used his
collection for educational purposes. During World War II he offered his
collection to the municipality of Gouda. Unknown what happened to the coll.
afterwards,
461. EIJKMAN, Christiaan - 9 June 1882 Leiden - 14 Aug. 1965 Oosterbeek.
Veterinarian. Director of the slaughterhouse at Dordrecht 1915-1947. Ornithologist
and mammalogist. Cousin of the discoverer of the cause of the Beri-beri
disease. 1930-1947 Secretary of the "Club van Nederlandse Vogelkundigen".
Author of "De Nederlandsche Vogels" (1936-1949 in 3 vols.) and of
"De Nederlandsche Zoogdieren" (1937).
Possessed a collection of mammals and birds, comprising nearly 80% of the
Dutch fauna, all stuffed by himself. His first collection of stuffed birds
was presented to the museum of the Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij at Arnhern
(ca. 1916). A second collection, as well as his collection of stuffed mammals,
was presented to the Natural History Museum at Enschede (q.v.). Duplicates
were presented to the Museum of Natural History at Rotterdam (q.v.).
Lutra VIII, 1966, p, 29-30 (by A. Scheygrond, with portr.); Limos a XXXIX,
1966, p. 149-150 (by P. Hens, with portr.).
462. EIJL, A. van - 's-Gravenhage.
Kanold 1727, p. 198, 306.
463. EIJNDHOVEN, A.J. van - Lawyer at Amsterdam, later Zutphen.
He possessed a collection of insects, that contained the collections of A.J.
d'Ailly (q.v.), C. Dalen (q.v.), J.C.H. van Walcheren (q.v.) and C. van Lennep
(q.v.). The collection was sold 14 Oct. 1861 seq. at Rotterdam by Burger
& Schadie, notaries. Annotated catalogue in "Artis". Verloren (q,v.) bought
the collections d'Ailly for Dfl, 1,460.--, the collection C. Dalen for Dfl,
800.-- apart of the collection van Walcheren for Dfl. 1,170.--, Deyrolle,
Paris, bought another part of the collections van Walcheren Dfl. 620.--. The
original collection Eijndhoven and the Coleoptera of van Walcheren were
bought by Deyro He (Paris) for Dfl. 300.--. The Orthoptera, Hemiptera and
Neuroptera of van Walcheren carne in the RMNH. The collection of preparat.es
of Schubart (Bombyx mori) carne in the possession of Groningen University.
The old collection of van Lennep was dispersed among several collectors.
According to a letter by Roepke, parts of the Eijndhoven collection were
bought by Felder (father and son) at Vienna. Together with the Felder collection
this material came in the possession of Tring. Sepp 1762-1860, VI,
p. 15, 145, 154, 161; VII, p. III, 2, 13, 24, 84, 181, 209, 211; VIII, p. 4,
13, 67, 132; AKL 1853, II, p. 18 (van Eijndhoven bought for Dfl. 1,200.-the
collection Dalen); Horn & Kahle 1935-'37, p. 287; Gijzen 1938, p. 164 (3
July 1861 the collection was presented to RMNH, but later on it was still
auctioned).
464. EIJNDHOVEN, Gerard Leendert van - 29 March 1906 Amsterdam - still living
at Haarlem. Merchant and amateur entomologist. Acarologist. From 1950