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

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471. FERGUSON VAN DER MEULEN, Jacob -
Bequeathed a collection of naturalia to the Amsterdam Hortus in 1757, cf.
also Vosmaer 1790, who mentions 1761: divers naturalia Ferguson van der Meulen.
472. FERMIN, Philippe - 5 May 1729 Berlin - 7 Jan. 1813 Maastricht. Physician
in Surinam 1754-1762, and from 1764 onwards at Maastricht. "Schepen"
(Alderman) and during the French occupation Judge at the Court of Justice.
Unmarried.
Possessed a cabinet with a.o. insects of Surinam. Well-known author about
the colony of Surinam, about diseases of that area, and about its animals
and plants. Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1768, II, p. 73-75. A.J. Flamant
1885: Enige biografische en bibliografische bij zonderheden omtrent Philippe
Fermin 1885, in: De Maasgouw, p. 1097 seq.; D.G. Franquinet 1909, in: De
Maasgouw, p. 55-56. NNBW VIII, col. 539-540.
473. FEYTAMA (FEITAMA) family -
FEITAMA, Sybrand (I) - 25 March 1620 - 5 Aug, 1701. Druggist at Amsterdam,
Damrak. He possessed a collection of exotic animals. Portr. in: Oud Holland
XCVIII, p. 19.
FEITAMA, Isaac - 1666 - 24 Jan. 1709. Lived at Amsterdam, Leidsegracht,
FEITAMA, Sybrand (II) - 1694 - 13 June 1758.
Annotated sale catalogue 16 Oct. 1758 in "Rijksprentenkabinet". B.P.J. Broos
1984: Notatie der tekeningen van Sybrand Feitama: de boekhouding van drie
generaties verzamelaars van oude Nederlandse tekenkunst, in: Oud Holland
XCVIII, p. 13-39.
474. FIERINGS (FIERENS), Jacobus - fl. 1642 - 1669. Probably died Middelburg
1.669. Bookseller and editor at Middelburg; edited a.o, Goedaert's "Metamorphosis
Naturalis".
Possessed a cabinet. Monconys 1665, I, p. 582 (v. 1.663); Kanold 1727, p.
205; Jutting 1939, p. 231, 237. Nagtglas II, p. 214.
475. FILIAAL, Het -
A central collection of North Sea shells brought together by private collectors,
mainly from the Leiden-•s-Gravenhage region. This collection is now in
RMNH.
476. FINSCH, Friedrich Hermann Otto - 8 Febr, 1839 Warmbrunn (Silesia) -
31 Jan. 1917 Braunschweig. 1861 traveller for the RMNH, 1864-1874 Director
of the Museum of ethnol. and nat. hist. Bremen. 1885 Curator RMNH. 1897-1904
head of the dept. of birds at the RMNH. 1904 Director of the ethnol. dept.
of the Braunschweig municipal museum.
Famous ornithologist and traveller, made zoological and ethnological collections.
Collected in Lapponia and in North America, 1876 in Siberia (together
with Alfred Brehm). Between 1879 and 1882 he collected almost the entire
flora of the Marshall Islands and part of the Gilbert Islands. Between 1884