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

Possessed a large cabinet of shells, insects, stones, etc. He gave a collection
of stones to the Bot. Garden at Amsterdam, see J. Wagenaar 1765: Amsterdam
in zijn opkomst, II, p. 387; as a Director of the Zeeuwsch Genootschap
he presented it with shells and "3 doosjes uitlandsche capellen, 27
aug. 1771, een kelder met zes vlesschen uitlandsche insecten in liquor, als
ook het hoofd en de horens van de Caapsche Coudou" (Gedenkboek Zeeuwsch Genootschap
1919, p. 103-104). His cabinet was sold 1782 at Amsterdam (Vosmaer
1790, who also under F mentions Amsterdam 1761 divers naturalia Ferguson van
der Meulen, q.v.). He seems to have possessed a menagerie in his garden.
Camper saw a living Orang-utan there in 1772 (Camper 1803: Oeuvres I, p.
50); Loisel 1912, II, p. 50. Sander 1783, I, p. 568 (v, 1777, writes van der
Moelen): "coil. in a very poor order"; Titius 1783, I, p. 195 (v. 1777, van
der Moelen). Argenville 1757, p. 149; 1780, p. 350-351; Houttuyn 1761-1773,
VIII, p. 276 (p. 20 last part); IX, p. 177, 179, 531, 534, 542, 549; XII, p.
241; XIV, p. 448; XVII, p. 117, 121, 145, 163, 174, 330, 346, 433. Pallas
1766, I, p. 55, 180, 283, 286, 386; Anon. 1767, p. 328 (Vandermeulen); Boddaert
1768, p. XXIV, 68, 224, 351, 355, 487; 1770, V, p. 27; Knorr 1770-
1775, V, pl. I; Francq 1773, p. 35; van Phelsum 1774, p. 59; Cramer 1779-
1782, I, p. 36, 37, 57, 64, 123, 137, 139, 140, 148; II, p. 23, 40, 46, 73,
89, 103, 121, 124, 139; III, p. 38, 40, 48, 50, 53, 74, 80, 87, 88, 112,
113, 118, 120, 126, 127, 135, 139, 143, 158, 162; IV, p. 22, 25, 30, 32, 35,
38, 40, 46, 61, 65, 66, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 90, 92, 93, 101, 102, 103, 104,
108, 110, 112, 122, 123, 125, 129, 132, 134, 137, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149,
158, 159, 163, 167, 183, 185, 186, 190, 209, 215, 219, 230, 234; Stoll
1788a, p. 83, 87. Jutting 1939, p. 219, 229, 235; Engel 1940, p. 204; Brouwer
1954, p. 24, 26; Dance 1966, p. 83-84.
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1032. MEUSCHEN, Friedrich Christian - 1719 -ca. 1800, "Sachsen-Coburgischer
Legationssekretar". Councillor and secret secretary of the legacy at 's-Gravenhage.
Merchant in shells.
He revised several auction catalogues of shells, collecting them in a series:
Miscellanea Conchyliologica 1-8 (Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp). 1. Catalogus
Musei Chaisiani (1766, 116 p.); 2. Catalogus V.D.M. (Vander Mieden) (1766,
53 p.); 3. Catalogus V .D.M. Oudaniani (1766, 144 p.); 4. Catalogus V .D.M.
Leersiani (1767, 230 p.); 5. Catalogus Dishoekiani (1767, 48 p.); 6. Catalogus
K (Koeningani) (1770, 114 p.); 7. Catalogus N (Nivreltiani) = van Zuylen
van N (1773, 400 p.); 8, Museum Gronovianum (1778, 251 p.), cf. Cobres p.
137, 138, 147. They were also issued seperately. See Ch. Chais, A.P. van
Dishoek, A.P. Gevers, Gronovius, Koeni.ng, A. Leers, van der Mieden, M.
Oudaan, M,W. Schwenken, Zuylen van Nyevelt. Pallas 1767-1777, IX, p. 14, 26
(insects); Anonymus 1767, p. 327 (shells); G.P. Whitley 1929, in: Rec,
Austr. Mus. XVII, p. 298; Linne-Salssk. Arsskrift 1947, XXX, p. 31; Jutting
1939, p. 202, 222, 227, 230, 237; 1972, p. 150; Dance 1966, p. 79, 83, 84,
238. E, Ahrling 1885: Carl von Linne's brefvexling, p. 93; W.H. Dall, 1923-
1924: F. C. Meuschen in the Zoophylacium Gronovianum, in: The Nautilus
XXXVII, p. 44-52; Le Tomlin 1942, in: Proc, Malacol, Soc., p. 25. Mensonides
1975, in: Driekwart eeuw historisch leven in Den Haag, p. 121-131.