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

semann 1951, p. 119; 1975, p. 112. JWP IV, p. 386. Ned. Patriciaat XII,
1921/22, p. 176, 180.
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518. GEVERS, Abraham Paulusz. - 30 Aug. 1712 Rotterdam - 15 Oct. 1780 Rotterdam
("Huis 'Crooswijk"'). "Raad" (Councillor) and Burgomaster of Rotterdam;
Forester of Holland and West Friesland; Director of the Dutch East India
Company, patron of the Bataafsch Genootschap. Married 1740 to Kenau Deynoot.
Cabinet of birds, shells, zoophytes, insects, etc. (Jutting 1939, p. 203:
"Museum Geversianum sive Index Rerum Naturalium, etc." 1787. A famous item
was the "Gloria maris". This shell came from the cabinet Leers (q.v.). The
cabinet was sold Rotterdam 1787. Catalogue by F .C. Meuschen (Latin and
French, Rotterdam 1787, ca. 650 pags.) in "Artis" nr. 135. Vosmaer 1790; Hagen
1862, p. 377; Ms. in Brit. Mus. (Nat, Hist.), dept. of molluscs, and in
Roy. Soc. London. See also UBA Ms. Cat. II, p. 175-176. Courtanvaux 1768, p.
180 (v. 1767); Rotterdamsche Courant 28 Aug. 1774: visit of Archduke Maximilian;
Idem 21 May 1778: visit of Duchess of Chartres and Princess de Lamballes;
BjornsUlhl 1782, V, p. 508 (v. 1775); Honore 1779, p. 27-28 (v.
1776); Sander 1783, I, p. 475 (v. 1777): the collection was contained in
"Schubladen auf blauem Tuch"; Francq 1773 (Sermo), p. 36. Pallas 1766a, p.
183, 188; 1766b, p. 187; 1767-1777, IV, p. 15; VI, p. 8; IX, p. 22; X, p.
32; Anon. 1767, p. 325; Boddaert 1768, p. 228, 234; 1770, VI, p. 9; Cramer
1779, I, p. 110, 117; II, p. 5, 27, 39, 72, 73, 85, 87, 99, 100, 101, 122,
137; III, p. 59, 71; Argenville 1780, p. 337 ("Gevres"); Stoll 1788, II, p.
122; Hublard 1910, p. 84; Stresemann 1923, p. 120; Jutting 1939, p. 202,
203, 218, 222, 230, 235; Brouwer 1954, p. 23, 26, 101; van Seters 1958, p.
224 (auction 12 Sept. 1787 Rotterdam); Dance 1966, p. 92, 238. NNBW I, col.
934; JWP IV, p. 386; Engelbrecht 1973, p. 319. Ned, Leeuw 1921, col. 135.
519. GEVERS, Aarnout Pauluszn. - Possibly this is the same as Aarnout Gevers
(25 May 1714 Rotterdam - 20 March 1788 Dordrecht), refiner and "Schepen"
(Alderman) of Rotterdam, brother of Abraham Gevers 1712-1780 (q.v.).
Collection of shells. Anon. 1767, p. 324; Levaillant 1799, I, p. 56 (v. ca.
1780); Jutting 1939, p. 230, 238. Ned. Patriciaat XII, 1921/22, p. 176.
520. GEVERS, Paulus Abrahamsz. - 4 May 1741 (bapt.) Rotterdam - 18 June
1797 Maassluis, "Noord Nieuwland", buried Scheveningen 21 June 1797. Son of
Abraham Gevers 1712-1780 (q.v.) and Kenau Deynoot. "Raad" (Councillor) of
Rotterdam, patron of the "Bataafsch Genootschap", Director of the West-India
Company, and of the "Maatschappij van Assurantie" (Assurance Company).
Courtanvaux 1768, p. 180 (v. l"767): "M Geevers fils est Di.r, de la Cie des
Indes Occidentales". Van der Aa VII, p. 159; C.G. Engelbrecht 1973, p. 357-
358,
521. GEVERS, (probably Abraham Aarnoutsz.) -
Temminck 1808-1809, p. 53: "Menagerie de M. Gevers a Rotterdam"; VII, p. 66:
"Cabinet Gevers". Gijzen 1938, p. 162, says that ca. 1827 the collection Ge-