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

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1672. WERTHEIM, Abraham Carel - 22 Sept. 1889 Amsterdam - Dec. 1932 Amsterdam.
General collector, esp. of very fine specimens, on which he often spent
large sums of money. The collection of shells and other marine products and
some beautiful pieces of ores and minerals was presented to "Artis" in Febr.
1923. Jutting 1939, p. 180, 182, 232, 238.
1673. WERUMEUS, Arnold Sicco -,
Possessed a collection of nat. hist., sold ll May 1702 at Groningen (526
nrs.). Lugt nr. 182.
1674. WEST-TERSCHELLING - See Terschelling.
1675. WESTERBORK (Prov. Drente) -
Museum of Natural History, closed 1970.
1676. WESTERHOFF, Abraham - died 21 Jan. 1780 's-Gravenhage. Physician,
town physician at 's-Gravenhage, living at the Lange Voorhout.
Possessed a cabinet of nat. hist., anatomy, zoophytes, shells, insects, sold
18 Sept. 1782 at •s-Gravenhage (in aedibus defuncti in plataea '"t Voorhout").
Boekh. nr. 462; Vosmaer 1782. Jutting 1939, p. 230, 236.
1677. WESTERHOFF, Jan Barentz -born in Oldenburg. See Blauw Jan.
1678. WESTERMAN, Gerardus Frederik - 8 Dec, 1807 Amsterdam - 9 May 1890 Amsterdam.
Bookseller, collector of birds. Founder of the Zool. Gardens at Amsterdam,
1838, and Director 1849-1890. Founder of "Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde",
1848.
Bijdr. Dierk. 1888, feestnr. (Maitland p. 3); Zool. Garten XXX1, 1890, p.
255; Abrahams & Portielje 1922, in: Artisboek II, p. 294; Jutting 1939, p.
168, 169; Scheffer 1939, p. 116, 135, 136, 138, 139, 142; Stresemann 1951,
p. 218, 401, 402; Bierens de Haan 1952, p. 261, 266-267; Brouwer 1954, p.
51, 59, 72-74, lOS, 109, 188; Boeseman 1970, p. 195; Pieters 1978, p. 69.
Eigen Haard 1890; A.C. Wertheim 1891: In memoriam Dr. G.F, Westerman (Amsterdam);
Balsius 1880: Het geslacht Westerman; J.H. van den Hoek Ostende
1966: Inventaris van het familie-archief Westerman, 57 pp. (Gem. Arch, Amsterdam).
Port. by Wijnveld in "Artis".
1679. WESTERVEEN, A. - Lawyer of the East India Company.
Cabinet sold Amsterdam 1761 (Vosmaer 1790). Valentijn 1726, III, p. 561;
1754, p. 19, 45; Catal. Leers, p. IX. Jutting 1939, p. 227, 230, 235.
1680. WESTMAAS, DE ROO VAN - See Roo van Westmaas, de.
1681. WEVER, Frederikus Cornelius August de - 14 March 1874 Nuth - 21 March
1947 Nuth. Physician at Nuth. Especially famous as a botanist.
He possessed a collection of birds, already started by his father, dispen-