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

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Nat. Hist. Maandblad XIII and of Avifauna van de nederlandse provincie Limburg,
in: Publicaties van het natuurkundig genootschap in Limburg, reeks XV,
1964-1964, p. 15-19. Snouckaert van Schauburg 1907, p. 46; P.J. van Nieuwenhoven
1971: P.A. Hens overleden, in: Het Vogeljaar, p. 645 (portr.); P.J.
van Nieuwenhoven 1971: P.A. Hens en het Natuurhistorisch Genootschap, in:
Nat. Hist. Maandbl. LX, p. 89-93 (portr.); K.H. Voous 1971, in: Limosa XLIV,
p. 198-203 (portr.).
670. HENT, Rentre - Amsterdam,
According to Kanold 1727, p. 182, Rentre Hent of Amsterdam possessed a
cabinet. It is not clear which person is meant.
671. HERING, Christiaan Johannes - 28 Aug. 1829 Paramaribo - 30 May 1907
Paramaribo. Son of Dr. Constantin Hering (1800-1880), collector of plants in
Surinam. 1855 Director of the government plantations in Surinam; 1872
Government position Surinam Finance Dept. 1892 retired.
Made a collection of nat. hist. objects for a French Museum. Between 1882
and 1899 several shipments of zoological objects to RMNH. Also interested in
archeology and meteorology, cf. Zool. Verh. 1959, XLIV, p. 25-26, F. Oudschans
Dentz 1930: Dr. Constantin Hering en Christiaan Johannes Hering, in:
Westindische Gids XII, p. 147-160, 3 plates.
672. HERKLOTS, Jan Adriaan - 17 Aug. 1820 Middelburg - 31 March 1872 Leiden.
Custodian RMNH 1846-1872 (invertebrates, later: invertebrates, except
arthropods). Succeeded W. de Haan (q.v.). Herklots is the author of a.o.:
"Bouwstoffen voor een fauna van Nederland" (1853-1866).
His books were sold 9-14 Dec. 1872 at Leiden. Tijdschr. Entom, XVI, 1873, p.
III; Gijzen 1938, p. 270; Scheffer 1939, p. 132, 140; J.G.J. Kuiper: Schets
malacol. gesch. Frankrijk, in: Corr. Blad Ned. Malacol, Ver. 1969, CXXXIII,
p. 1455. P. Smit: De N.D.V. en zijn station, 1872-1972 (KU Nijmegen),
(portr.). JWP IV, p. 388.
673. HERMANN, Paul - 30 June 1646 Halle - 25 Jan. 1695 Leiden. Physician
of the East India Company at Colombo, 1672-1679; Professor of botany Leiden
University 1680-1695.
Collected natural and ethnographic objects in Ceylon, India and South Africa,
In his Leiden residence, next to the botanical garden, he exhibited his
famous herbarium and a cabinet of exotic animals in liquor (Melle & Postel
1891, p. 21, v. 1683), continued by his widow Anna Margaretha Stomph in the
Lange Nieuwstraat, but she was forced to sell them in 1711; since, the Hermann
collections are widely scattered and especially the cabinet of animals
seems to be lost. Sale catalogue 29 June 1711 seq., Leiden: "Musei Indici
catalogus" in Mus. Boerhaave (Dutch, French and Latin title). Birch 1757,
IV, p. 384-386 (Thomas Molyneux v. 1685 with a short survey of cabinet of
animals). Siegenbeek 1829b, p. 74, 76-78, 152, 153, and Toev. en Bijl.
Biogr.; Stresemann 1923, p. 115; 1951, p. 45, 49; van der Klaauw 1926, p.
1, 46 note 25; Veendorp & Baas Becking 1938, p. 82-95; Karsten 1951 (see