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

28. ALPY - See Louis Napoleon.
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29. ALTENA, Hector Livius van - (bapt.) 19 May 1741 Blessum (Menaldumadeel,
Prov. Friesland) - 11 Apr. 1806 Leeuwarden. Lawyer at Tietjerk; 1782
Member of the States of Friesland,
Scheffer 1939, p. 137 (Enumeratio systematica species indigenae reptilium ex
ordine Batrachiorum, 1829-1830). NNBW IX, col. 20-21; Friese Encycl. 1958,
p. 145.
30. AMERINGEN, N, van -
Shells 1863 to Museum Amsterdam. Jutting 1939, p. 174.
31. AMERONGEN, Michiel Hendrik van - ca. 1821 Utrecht - 5 May 1858
Utrecht, Assistent of Pieter Harting, professor of zoology, Utrecht University.
Sold microscopical slides (AKL 1852, II, p. 357).
32. AMERSFOORT -
Amersfoort Zoo, founded 1948 by P,J. Knoester and W.G. ter Toolen.
Hoogenhout 1978b, nr. 2; Ned, Museumgids 1982, p. 89.
Museum "Flehite". Seeds and mammalian fossils, ca. 1000 numbers, from the
Pleistocene and also some human bones from the Holocene? Mostly from the
bottom of the large rivers in Holland and also from the "Bruine Bank", a
shallow place in the North Sea between Katwijk and Lowes toft. Collected by
A. Flonk (q.v.), custodian of the Museum "' t Behouden Huys" at Terschelling.
Ned. Museumgids 1982, p. 89.
33. AMESHOFF, Arnoldus - 6 Sept. 1749 Amsterdam - 16 Jan. 1819 Amsterdam.
Merchant at Amsterdam.
Menagerie on his country residence "Amstellust" or "Amstelrust" (Temminck
1808-1811), especially water-birds, fowls, pheasants and pigeons. Sold part
of the collections to Anthony van Aken Sr. (q.v.) at Rotterdam in 1791. Levaillant
1799-1808, I, p. 34-37 (v. 1780); Amstelodamum 60, 1973, p. 3 (v.
1790). Temminck 1813-1815, II, p. 458; Temminck and Laugier 1838, I, pl.
426; Witkamp 1864, p. 8; 1872, p. X; 1888, p. 315; Rotterdamsch Jaarboekje
1939, p. 138; Jutting 1939, p. 229, 238; Engel 1940, p. 204; Stresemann
1951, p. 119- 121; 1975, p. 112-113; Brouwer 1954, p. 24. Ned, Patriciaat
IX, 1918, p. 1.
34. AMSTERDAM -
Early after the encircling of the town by stonewalls, lions were kept by the
municipality (Loisel I, p. 156 seq.). Swans were also held (Witkamp 1872, p.
V). According to Citroen (1967): Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg
visited 1594 in "De Doe len", the shooting-range, where he saw a living elephant
and a camel; the alchemist Count Michael Maier (cf. J.B. Craven: Ct.
M, Maier, 1568-1622, Life and Writings, Kirkwall 1910, p. 3) saw in 1611 at
Amsterdam a superb collection of shells in the cabinet of a Dutch antiquary;