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

Cabinet of birds, etc. sold at 's-Gravenhage 1760. Vosrnaer 1790; Brouwer
1954, p. 26.
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1285, ROO VAN WESTMAAS, E.A. de - died 21 Nov. 1902 Velp. Lawyer.
Sepp 1762-1860, VII; VIII. Tijdschr. Entorn. 1905, p. 47-48, p. xxvi.
1286. ROON, Gerrit van - 21 May 1870 Rotterdam - 21 March 1928 Rotterdam.
Treasurer of the Dutch Soc, Nat. Hist. (N,N.V.), dept. Rotterdam.
Possessed a collection of Coleoptera, esp. Lucanidae, Buprestidae, Carabidae
and Cerarnbicidae. During the last years of his life he was very interested
in molluscs. His collections were very famous abroad, His collection of
shells carne in the Rotterdam Mus. of Nat. Hist. Everts 1922, p. XII, Horn &
Kahle 1935- '37, p. 230 (coll. of Coleoptera to RMNH); Natura 1928, p. 123
(necrol. by A.B. van Deinse); Jutting 1939, p. 230, 237. JWP IV, p. 404; V,
p. 251. Portr. in Nat. Hist. Mus., Rotterdam,
1287. ROOS, P. - "Oud-Fiskaal van het Committee der Marine".
Cat. of sale 23-24 April 1800, le Wagenstraat, 1 s-Gravenhage. Boekh. nr.
6840.
1288. ROOSELAAR, Pieter - 17th century Governor of Ternate.
Collection of shells. Valentijn 1754, p. 44: started collecting at Arnboina
ca. 1686; Kalff 1919, p. 90; Idem 1928, p. 208; Jutting 1939, p. 202, 234,
237.
1289. ROOY, A.L. de - Studied litteraria and hurnanoria at Harderwijk in
1810.
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Collection of insects, cf. Sepp 1762-1860, IV, p. 92.
1290. ROOY - See Medenbach de Rooy.
1291. ROOZENDAAL - See Rozendaal.
1292. ROQUETTE - See Rocquette.
1293, ROS, Joannes - Amsterdam. The only man in Amsterdam who knew perfectly
how to clean shells for cabinets.
Valentijn 1726, III, p. 561; 1754, p. 45.
1294. ROSENDAEL, Justus Bartholdus Jacobus van - ca. 1829 's-Hertogenbosch
- 16 March 1884 Amsterdam. Merchant at Dordrecht. Collection of shells
bought by Zool. Garden ("Artis"), Amsterdam, in 1859. Jutting 1939, p. 177,
212, 232, 237. Announcement of the sale of his collections on 26 May 1884,
in: NRC 20 May 1884, so he probably started a second collection after 1859.
1295. ROSENDAEL (Castle) - See Rozendaal.