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

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of it is in this Museum. "Catalogue d 'une collection de coqui.lles compose de
9,500 pieces" (Antwerp, 108 p.) in Bibl. Dautzenberg (Mus, Royal d'Hist.
Nat., Brussels, nr. 52352). In the preface of this catalogue it is stated
that a committee of naturalists appointed by the direction of the Paris Museum
had classified the collection in 1845. Kalff 1928, p. 205-206; Jutting
1939, p. 210, 234, 237. Vander Aa XII, p. 466.
1009, MEENTZEN, Johan Adolf - Died at Enkhuizen. "Schepen" (Alderman) at
Batavia.
Ca. 1712 he possessed a beautiful cabinet of shells, which he took with him
to Holland in 1714. Valentijn 1726, III, p. 561; 1754, p. 45; Jutting 1939,
p. 234. 237.
1010. MEER, Hermannus Hendricus ter - 2 Febr. 1838 - 17 Jan. 1917. Assistant
preparator RMNH; 1860-1.865 Keeper of the collections of the Dutch Entom.
Soc.
He possessed a collection of Lepidoptera and he also breeded caterpillars.
Sepp 1762-1.860, VIII, p. 8,
1011. MEER, D. van der - Delft.
Cabinet. Valentinus 1714, II, p. 19; Kanold 1727, p. 195.
1012. MEER, Gerrit van der - 16 Dec. 1891 Terwoude - 14 Oct. 1960 Eefde,
Teacher secundary school at Zutphen.
Possessed a collection of Dutch birds and their eggs. Vakbl. Biol. III,
1922, p. 150; XL, 1960, p. 212.
1013. MEER, Jan van der - 1616 Delft - 1683 Delft (22 Febr. buried in the
"Oude Kerk"). Druggist; 1650-1660 chief of the St. Nicolaasguild; physician
since 1.666.
The cabinet certainly contained mammals, birds, fishes and shells. Much material
from the East and the West Indies. It was of pharmaceutical interest,
J. Ray 1738: Travels through the Low Countries, II, p. 24; "Possessed a museum
well stored with natural and artificial rarities"; Bosman, p. 121-126
(p. 123-125 an enumeration of the contents of his cabinet).
1014. MEER, Roeland van der - Painter at Nijmegen,
Sale 4 June 1710 (Amsterdamsche Courant 29 May 1710): paintings, insects,
shells, zoophytes, animals.
1015, MEER MOHR, Johannes Carolus van der - born 1892 Pagongan (Java). Entomologist;
member of the staff of the Institute for Plant Diseases at Buitenzorg
(Bogor, Java). Teacher nat. hist. at the secundary school at Soerabaya.
1925 assistant, 1934-1939 Director of the Deli Experimental Station at
Medan; 1946 head of the Public Library, Medan.
Horn & Kahle 1935- 1 37, p. 372: Collection of Poeloe Berhala (Sumatra 1925-
1927) to Zool. Mus. Buitenzorg (Bogor), cf. De Tropische Natuur XVII, 1928,