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

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His cabinet of ca. 250 conchs. and shells, for the greatest part from the
Indian Archipelago, and a series of marine invertebrates from the Japanese
Sea to the Rotterdam Zoo (ca. 1870), Jaarb, Rotterdamsche Diergaarde 1869-
1871, II, p. 54; also shells to Zool. Mus. Amsterdam, cf. Jutting 1939, p.
174, 229, 234, 237. A.J.E. van der Crab 1897: 8 kwartieren van Petrus van
der Crab, in: Ned. Leeuw XV, col. 167-168; A. Wickmann, in: Nova Guinea
I(2), p. 117-118, 146-150,
333. CRAHAY, Jacques Guillaume - 3 April 1789 Maastricht - 21 Oct. 1855
Leuven, buried at Parc-des-Louvain. 1818 Prof. physiscs and chemistry at the
Royal Atheneum of Maastricht as successor of Minckelers, his former teacher;
1830 Prof. physics at Gent; 1835 Prof. physics at Leuven.
Fossil-collection of the Cretaceous of Gulpen (South Limburg). In 1823 he
lectured on the fossil bones he had found, among which "La Machoire (lower
jawbone) de Maastricht", found in 1823 in the vicinity of Smeermaas, near
Maastricht. Parts of his collection are in the RMNH and Museum of Nat.
Hist., Maastricht. Crahay also did meteorological research in the caves of
the St. Pietersberg. E.M. Krytzer 1955: J.G. Crahay, in: Nat. Hist. Maandblad
XLIV, p. 88-90, 128-132 (with bibliogr., portr.).
334. CRAMER - See also Kramer.
335. CRAMER, J. - Amsterdam.
Cabinet sold 22 July 1811. Lugt nr. 8050 (birds, insects, part. Lepidoptera,
shells). Perhaps the same as Jacob Cramer (q.v., infra).
336. CRAMER, Jacob - Merchant, Amsterdam. Well-to-do amateur-scientist.
Owner of an extensive collection of shells and of instruments (optical,
aerometrical, hydrostatical and mechanical) for demonstrations in a private
scientific society. Bjornst&hl 1782, V, p. 414, menti.ons a cabinet of natural
curiosities of a Mr. Kramer; esp. his collection of Lepidoptera seems to
have been a curiosity (v. 1774). Probably this Kramer is the same as Jacob
Kramer mentioned by Fermer 1910, p. 322, 377, 385, 386 (v, 1759); Anon,
1781, p. 120.
337. CRAMER, Pieter - 21 May 1721 Amsterdam - 27 or 28 Sept. 1776 Amsterdam
(buried N.Z. Kapel, Amsterdam, 2 Oct, 1776). Merchant in Spanish wool at
O.Z. Voorburgwal 131 and O.Z. Achterburgwal 12, together with his nephew Anthony
van Rensselaar Wzn. (q.v,). He was unmarried.
He left his collection of drawings of "kapellen" (butterflies) by Gerrit
Wartenaar, to his nephew with the stipulation that they should be available
to the publishers (J. van Schoonhoven & Cie.) of his butterfly-book (Not.
Arch. no. 13.721, dd, 5 Sept. 1774, Notary Dominius Geniets). Vosmaer (1790)
gives 1777 as the date of sale of his cabinet of diverse naturalia. Garampi
1889, p. 197 (v. 1764); Bjornst&hl 1782, V, p. 450 (v. 1774); Sander 1783,
I, p. 576 (v. 15 Aug. 1777: "Herr Cramer starb im letzten Februar (sic) am
hitzigen Fieber ••• Sammlung fast aus allen Reichen der Natur ••• verkauft,