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

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1206. PORTENGEN, J.A. - Lived in 19th century, Army surgeon lst class in
the Royal Dutch Navy. Brother-in-law of Henri J. Gilhuys (q.v.).
Collected Lepidoptera and shells on the islands of Timor, Cracatau, Bali,
Lombok, Ternate, Tidore, etc. The shell collection came 1890 in the Zool.
Mus. Amsterdam, the collection of Lepidoptera came 1902 in the RMNH. See
also Gilhuys. Jutting 1939, p. 177.
1207. PORTLAND, Earl of - See Bentinck, H.W.
1208. PORTZ, J.D,V. - Colonel in the army.
Possessed a cabinet of minerals, fossils, stones, etc. Sold at Amsterdam 18
March 1754 (Vosmaer 1790). Boehmer 1785, I, p. 396; Jutting 1939, p. 229,
235.
1209. POSTHUMUS, Vincent - buried 5 May 1752 Amsterdam. Brooker on the
Prinsegracht near Vijzelstraat.
According to Argenville (1742, p. 215-216) the cabinet of Rumphius came via
Schijnvoet and Vincent Posthumus in the possession of the town of Amsterdam,
but he corrected this in the later edition: 1780, p. 348, note. Argenville
1757, p. 147; Lesser 1756, p. 80: Posthumus got the cabinet of his fatherin-law
Schijnvoet: the catalogue of the shells (1744 Amsterdam) is quoted by
Boehmer 1785, I, p. 394 (Vosmaer 1790), A second catalogue is mentioned by
Cobres 1782, I, p. 131, and Murray 1904, I, p. 182; III, p. 167, dealing only
with the minerals, fossils and stones, Jutting 1939, p. 229, 239.
1210. POTT, Johannes - Probably Johan Arnold Pott buried 15 March 1765 Amsterdam.
Museum in Amsterdam, mentioned by Valentinus 1714, II, p. 19; Kanold 1727,
p. 22., 182.
1211. POUDEROYEN, Lodewijk Pieter - 1902 - 1977 Oosterbeek. Teacher natural
history at the Municipal Grammar School, Dordrecht. Lived at Rotterdam. One
of the founders of the Dutch Malacological Society.
Possessed a collection of shells, cf. Jutting 1939, p. 198. His collection
of shells came into the possession of A.W. Arends (Nijmegen).
1212. PRATTY, G. -
Shells to Zool. Museum Amsterdam in 1867, cf. Jutting 1939, p. 174.
1213. PRE, Abraham du- married to Petronella Oortmans (q.v.)
1214. PRICK, Joseph Jules Guillaume - Professor of psychiatry Catholic University
Nijmegen.
Together with his brother W.J. Prick (Reno, Nevada, USA) he built up the so
called "collection Prick". It consists of ca. 7,000 specimens of Lepidoptera
particularly from the South of Limburg and the environment of Nijmegen. Nat.
Hist, Maandblad XLIX, 1960, p. 193; Entom. Ber. XXXVIII, 1978, p. 191.