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

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Muntendam 1938, p. 470; Bierens de Haan 1941, p. 27; 1952, p. 252; Brouwer
1954, p. 26, 41; Tuyn 1971, p. 177. Elias 1963, II, p. 969 (cabinet of insects
after his death to his brother Cornelis).
915. LENNEP, R.J. van -
Shells to Zool. Mus. Amsterdam in 1855, cf. Jutting 1939, p. 173.
916. LENNEP, van - See Roeters van Lennep.
917. LETH, Hendrik de - Died ca. 1766 probably at Amsterdam. Art-dealer
on the "Beurssluis" at Amsterdam; draftsman and engraver, well-known by his
"Rijngezichten", after drawings of Goll.
His cabinet was sold at Amsterdam 30 Sept. 1766 (Lugt nr. 1560); catalogue
at Bibl. Nationale, Paris (72 nrs. nat. hist.). Vander Aa XI, p. 363; Thieme-Beeker
XXIII, p. 138,
918. LEVAILLANT (LE VAILLANT), Franr;ois - 1753 Paramaribo (Surinam) - 22
Nov. 1824 La Noue (France). Son of the French Consul at Paramaribo; traveller
and naturalist, educated in Holland, where he lived at Amsterdam during
a long time.
He made collecting trips through South-Africa 1781 and 1783. His watercolour
drawings were famous. 165 Of them were bought by the parliament library
at Cape-Town in 1963. They are also published, He brought a giraffe to
the "Jardin des plantes" at Paris. Levaillant is the author of a.o. Voyages
de F. Le Vaillant dans l'interieur de l'Afrique (Paris 1790); Histoire naturelle
des perroquets, 2 vols. (Paris 1801-1805). DSB 1973, VIII, p. 274-275;
Nouv. Biogr. Generale 1860, XVI, col. 19-20. A. Crichton 1845: Memoir of Le
Vaillant, in: William Swainson: Birds of Western Africa, II; J.H. Ogilvie
1962: A bibliography of Le Vaillant's voyages and oiseaux d'Afrique (Johannesburg).
J.C. Quinton et al. 1973: Franr;ois le Vaillant, traveller in South
Africa and his collection of 165 water-colour paintings, 1781-1784 (Cape
Town). Stresemann 1951, p. 89 seq., portr.
919. LEWE VAN MIDDELSTUM, H. Baron - 24 Febr. 1819 Groningen - 20 Nov.
1878 Beek/Nijmegen. Tax inspector.
Possessed a collection of Dutch Lepidoptera. Tijdschr. Entom. 1878, XXII, p.
lxxv.
920. LIDTH DE JEUDE, Theodoor Gerard van - 8 July 1788 Tiel - 23 Dec. 1863
Utrecht. Prof.med. Harderwijk 1815; Prof. zool. Utrecht 1828-1858; Director
of the Utrecht Veterinary School 1821-1826; lectured at that school until
1851.
He assembled a large collection of natural history objects, which was of
considerable renown. He offered his collection for sale for the first time
in 1835, apparently to have it incorporated in the collections of the RMNH.
In 1858 he again offered his collections for sale in a letter to Temminck
and Schlegel. The first part of the collection contained 1,062 mammmals (362