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

1353. SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAN DER OYEN, W.A.A.J. Baron van - 20th century.
Voorschoten, Huize Duivenvoorde,
He possessed a collection of shells, the origin of which is unknown, Also
some stuffed birds and mammals, molluscs from the Dutch East and West Indies,
determined at the RMNH, which kept 50 of them.
1354. SCHLEGEL, Herman - 10 June 1804 Altenburg (Thuringia, Germany) - 17
Jan. 1884 Leiden. After having worked at the Nat. Hist. Museum of Vienna he
came to Leiden, where he became taxidermist at the 1\MNH in 1825. In 1828 he
became Keeper of the dept. of vertebrates, osteology and fossils. After the
death of Temminck (q.v.) in 1858 he became Director.
Schlegel did much to enlarge the collections of the RMNH, According to the
inventory of Jan. 1882 the museum contained 7,500 mammals, 51,000 birds,
10,000 snakes, etc., 34,000 fishes, 80,000 insects, 4,655 lobsters, crabs,
etc., 25,000 shells, 550 worms, 1,850 radiata, 930 nests, 6,000 eggs, arid a
collection of skeletons and skulls of 4,600 mammals, 1, 730 birds, 400
snakes, etc., 600 fishes. Already in 1827 Schlegel became acquainted with
the museum of van Lidth de Jeude (q.v.). After the death of his first wife,
Schlegel remarried in 1869 with van Lidth de Jeude's stepdaughter. Most of
Schlegel's publications are on ornithology, a.o.: "De vogels van Nederland
beschreven en afgebeeld", 1854-1858, all 362 plates are drawn by himself;
"Museum d'histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas", 1862-1876, 8 vols.; "Natuurlijke
Historie van Nederland", 2 vols. 1860-1862. Veth 1879, p. 131; Gij zen 1938,
p. 47, 52-65, 82, 270; Scheffer 1939, p. 138-139, 142, 144, 148, 152-153
(mentions drawings by Schlegel), 157 (Ms.); Schierbeek 1940, p. 11; M, IJsseling
& A. Scheygrond 1943: De zoogdieren van Nederland, I; Stresemann
1951, p. 192, seq.; Bierens de Haan 1952, p. 265; Brouwer 1954, p. 2, 45,
46, 53-65, 73, 78, 79, 85, 86, 112, 119, 135-138, 140, 161, 167, 170, 188
(portr. pl. XII); Boeseman 1970, p. 185, 187, 190 seq., p. 4 (portr.). NNBW
IV, col. 1232-1233; ADB XXI, p. 377-378; JWP IV, p. 405; V, p. 251; W.P.
Encycl. ed. 5; ed. 6, XVI, p. 482; ed. 8, XX, p. 186-187. E. Everts 1884,
in: De Ned. Spectator, p. 58-59; A.A,W, Hubrecht 1884, in: De Gids, p. 536-
547. H. KOhler 1884: Lebensbild eines Naturforschers; Gustav Schlegel 1884:
Levensschets, in: Jaarboek Kon, Ned, Akad. v. Wet. p. 1-97 (bibl.); J.F.
Snelleman 1884, in: Mannen van Betekenis in onze dagen, p. 167-214; Snouckaert
1929, in: Orgaan Club Ned. Vogelkundigen I, p. 110.
1355. SCHLOSSER, Joan Albert - 1673 - 20 March 1769 (probably Amsterdam).
Physician at Amsterdam (1755).
He possessed a large cabinet from which he began to describe the Lacerta amboinense
(1768). Vosmaer mentions a sale catalogue Amsterdam 1769. Cat.
Boekh. nr. 362, auction 13 July 1769. Ferrner 1910, p. 356 (v. 1759); Sander
1783, I, p. 594 (v. 22 Aug. 1777 and suggests that Pieter Boddaert (q.v.)
got the cabinet after Schlosser 1 s death). Boddaert actually continued the
description of some animals of the cabinet: De Chaetodonte Argo, 1770; De
Testudine Cartilaginae, 1770; De Rana bicolore, 1772; De Chaetodonte Diacantho,
1772. Houttuyn 1761-1773, XVII, p. 399; Pallas 1766a, p. 266 (Boddaert
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