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

1449. SNOUCK HURGRONJE - See Hurgronje.
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1450. SNOUCKAERT VAN SCHAUBURG, Rene Charles Edouard Georges Jean Baron -
10 May 1857 •s-Gravenhage - 20 Aug. 1936 Territet (Switzerland), Lawyer. Adjunct
"Collllllies" (clerk), later Clerk at the Dept. of the Exterior till 1887.
He then settled at Lisse. In 1896 he moved to Doorn, in 1903 to Neerlangbroek,
in 1912 to Doorn, in 1923 he settled at Territet.
In 1901 he was one of the founders of the Dutch Ornithol. Soc., of which he
was President till 1911, Disagreeing about the free collecting of birds, he
founded the "Club Nederlandsche Vogelkundigen", of which he was President
till 1930. In 1902 he sold his collection of stuffed birds (stuffed by K.H.
ter Meer) to "Artis" (ca. 1,160 specimens), to the Carnegie Museum, Penns.,
U.S.A. (ca. 750 specimens) and in 1910 he sold the remaining specimens (ca.
400) to "Artis". In 1902 he started collecting bird-skins. His collection of
eggs (ca. 1,500 specimens) carne in the possession of A.A. van Pelt Lechner
(q.v.). After his departure to Territet a collection of stuffed birds (a.o.
ca. 5,000 palaearctic species) came in the possession of Messrs. Sillem (q.v'
& van Marie (q.v.) the remainder came in the Zool. Mus., Amsterdam. Snouckaert
1907, p. 48 and various vols. of the "Orgaan Club Ned. Vogelkundigen",
particularly his rerninescences in the first volume 1929, p. 116; Scheygrond
1936, in: Orgaan Club Ned. Vogelkundigen IX, p. 97. Brouwer 1954, p. 2, SO,
64, 67' 68, 71, 77' 78, 85, 87-94, 103-107' 109, 113, 115, 134, 135, 139,
170, 172, 176, 177, portr. pl. XXIII. P.A. Hens 1936: In memoriam Mr. Dr.
R,C,E.G,J. Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg, Eerevoorzitter der Club Nederlandsche
Vogelkundigen, in: Orgaan Club Ned. Vogelkundigen IX, p. 97-102,
with portr.
1451. SNIJDER -
Lepidoptera to RMNH. Lempke 1936, p. 239.
1452. SOBELS - Probably Cornelis Sobels - 15 Sept. 1767 1 s Hertogenbosch -
11 June 1865 Groningen. Captain in the army.
His cabinet of insects was bought by van Swinderen (q.v.) Sept. 1818 for
Mus. Groningen, cf. Alrnanak der Akademie van Groningen 1823, XI, p. 19,
1453, SOEST, Johannes Leendert van - 13 Oct. 1898 's-Gravenhage - still living.
1927 Electro technical engineer, later on Director of the physical laboratory
of the Dutch Postal Services (P. T. T.); Prof. electrotechnics at the
Technical University of Delft.
Amateur botanist, specialized in the genus Taraxacum, Famous for his research
in plant distribution in the Netherlands, He possessed a collection
of shells from his grandfather (van Steenis in litt., 1949).
1454. SOESTDIJK (Prov. Utrecht) -
During some time there was a menagerie near the palace of the Stadholders
(e.g. under William III, 1675; Tessin 1914, p. 70 (v. 1787) also mentions a
menagerie). King Louis Napoleon (q.v.) here commenced his menagerie, under