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first species of any kind to reach Holland from New Holland were two shells
which had been given to Burgomaster Witsen of Amsterdam in 1698 by a seacaptain
in the service of the Dutch East India Company, TI1is was William de
Vlamingh, who had visited Western Australia in the previous year; and in a
letter to Dr, Lister of the Royal Society, Witsen says: "He found them on
the seaside, and I make bold to send you the draught of them, the shells
themselves being twice as long and as broad as the draught". He adds the
courteous message: "I could not bestow them better than on one who hath the
best knowledge of these and all other sea products", A description of the
shells with illustrations was afterwards published in Lister's "Synopsis
Conchyliorum" one being the first Nautilus (N, •. ) the other then named the
Concha persica clavicula radiata. (From: The Australian Museum Magazine
V(6), 1934, p. 212-213). Patin 1676, p. 161 (v. 1671); Misson 1722, I, p. 34
(repeats Patin); Pacichelli 1685, I, p. 639 (v. 1674); Bowrey 1927, p. 41
(v. 1698); Uffenbach 1754, III, p. 687 (v. 1710). Jobi Ludolfi 1681: Diss.
de Locus tis, pl. 20, grasshopper, which Wit sen gave to him (behind Jobi
Ludolfi, Historia Aethiopica (Frankfurt am Main)). Valentijn 1726, III, p.
561; 1754, p. 19, 45; Seba 1734, I, p. 53, 138; Wagenaar 1767: Amsterdam
in zijn opkomst III, p. 239; Jac. Scheltema 1814: Peter de Grote, Keizer
van Rusland, in Holland en te Zaandam in 1697. Jutting 1939, p. 230, 235;
van de Graft 1943, p. 104, 109; Stuldreher 1944, p. 88-89 notes 15, 16 (p.
101), 17: 1945, p. 89; Ullmann 1974, I, p. 44; II, p. 29. Vander Aa XX, p.
354-359; NNBW IV, col. 14 7 3-14 79; JWP IV, p. 414; V, p. 256; Collot d' Escury
1844, VII, p. 199. J.F. Gebhard 1881-1882: Het leven van Mr. Nicolaas
Cornelisz. Witsen (publ. by Prov. Utrechtsch Genootsch.); M. Greshof 1909,
in: Album der Natuur, p. 151; Jaarboek Amstelodamum XIII, 1915, p. 651.
1707. WITT, de - "Secretarius te Dordrecht". Probably is meant: Cornelius
de Witt 14 May 1696 Dordrecht - 12 Oct. 1769 Dordrecht. Several times "Schepen"
(Alderman) and Burgomaster of Dordrecht; Member of the Deputy States of
Holland and since 1745 Curator of Leiden University.
He possessed a remarkable cabinet (of naturalia?). Kanold 1727, p. 33.
1708. WITTE THIERENS, Henderick de - "Eers te Commies en Kass ier ten comptoir
generaal van Zeeland".
He possessed a cabinet of dried zoophytes, like plants in a book: p. 106,
nr. 9 of his catalogue of sale, Middelburg 1-2 June 1763.
1709. WITTPEN, Jan Hendrik Ernst - 7 Oct. 1878 Amsterdam - 25 Febr. 1956
probably Amsterdam. Merchant.
Collected Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. The Coleoptera came in the possession
of Pieter van der Wiel (q.v. ). Everts 1922, p. XII; Lempke 1936, p. 239; P.
van der Wiel 1956: In memoriam, in: Entom. Ber. XVI, 1956, p. 73.
1710. WOERDEN, Marinus G, van - 1844 Rotterdam - 4 Oct. 1869 Rotterdam.
Merchant. He was a cooperator of (P.C.T.?) Snellen (q.v.).
During his travels he collected Lepidoptera. His small collection came in