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

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1969 Amsterdam. Former Director of the "Rijksprentenkabinet" at Amsterdam
(1913-1934).
Possessed remainders of an old shell-collection, Ned. Adelsboek LXXII, 1981,
p. 236.
1505. TEENSMA, Benjamin - 1905 Tjimahi (Java) - 26 April 1977. Worked on
Sumatra since 1929; since 1940 employee of the "Koloniale Bank"; repatriated
191+6.
He collected molluscs, also by exchanging and buying. In 1977 his collection,
together with documentation, came in the Nat. Hist. Mus., Maastricht.
Nat. Hist. Maandblad LXVI, 1977, p. 176 (portr.).
1506. TEMMINCK, Coenraad Jacob - 31 March 1778 Amsterdam - 30 Jan. 1858
Leiden.
Son of Jacob Temminck (q.v.), continued his cabinet of birds. He often
stuffed birds himself and had a special method to prepare fishes. In 1807 he
edited: "Catalogue systematique du cabinet d 'ornithologie et de la collection
de quadrumanes de C,J, Temminck, avec une courte description des
oiseaux nondecrits". In 1820 he sold his collections to the Government to be
put in the RMNH, of which he became the first Director in that same year.
Sale catalogue of his library 27 Sept. 1858. Nemnich 1809, p. 271 (v. 1808);
Haupt 1814, p. 337 (v. 1810); Meiszner 1819, p. 66 (v. 1817: birds, mammals,
esp. apes); Fliedner 1831, I, p. 253 (v. 1823, shortly afterwards sold to
Univ. Leiden, according to him). Temminck 1808-1809, I, p. 28, 30; II, p.
14; III, p. 2, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21; VI, p. 58; VII, p. 72; VIII, p. 74, 76,
79; AKL 1819, II, p. 1 (Dr. h.c,, Groningen); 1820, I, p. 2; 1858, p. 416
(death announcement); 1859, p. 321 (biogr.); Witkamp 1864 (Amsterdam), II;
Jaarboek Artis 1869, p. 193; Veth 1879, p. 26, etc.; Snouckaert 1905: Plechtige
inhuldiging van een gedenksteen voor Jacob Temminck, in: Verslagen en
Mededelingen Ned. Ornithol. Ver. II, p. 13-19; Idem 1929: Onze oude ornitho-
1ogen, in: Orgaan Club Ned. Vogelkundigen I, p. 116-132; Stresemann 1923, p.
120; 1951, p. 117-130 (biogr.), 152 (portr.); Gijzen 1938, p. S, 23, 32, 43,
45-52, 76, 160-164, 170, 267; Scheffer 1939, p. 135, 136, 138, 145; Bierens
de Haan 1952, p. 258; Elshout 1952, p. 101; Brouwer 1954, p. 2, 23, 24, 34,
41-52, 54, 63, 64, 72, 73, 78, 135-137, 140, 163-168, 170; Husson & Holthuis
1969, p. 147, 153; Boeseman 1970, p. 187, 189, 190; Tuyn 1971, p. 181, 187-
188. Van der Aa XXVIII, p. 52-58; NNBW IV, col. 1299; JWP III, p. 372; IV,
p. 410; V, p. 253; Collot d'Escury 1844, VII, p. 243. W.H. de Beaufort 1920:
Coenraad Jacob Temminck ••• uit zijne brieven geschetst, in: Ardea IX, p.
34-43; Stresemann 1951: Aus Temminck's Briefen an H. Lichtenstein, in: Ardea
XXXIX, p. 253-259; Idem 1956: Aus dem Briefwechsel von C.J. Temminck mit dem
Grafen von Hoffmannsegg und C, Illiger 1810-1814, in: Ardea XLIV, p. 253-
263. W. Vrolik 1857: Levensbericht, in: Jaarboek Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet., p.
65-80; J.A. Susanna 1858: Levensschets, in: Hand, Mij. Ned. Lett., p. 45-78.
Muller nr. 5284, 5285; van Someren nr. 5490-5492,
1507. TEMMINCK, Jacob - bapt. 15 Nov. 1748 Amersfoort - 15 Aug. 1822 Lau-