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

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419. DUYMAER VAN TWIST, Albertus Jacobus - 20 Febr. 1809 Deventer - 3 Dec.
1887 Diepenveen. 1832-1843 Attorney to the court of justice in Deventer;
1843-1851 and 1858-1881 Member of parliament; 1851-1856 Governor-General of
the Dutch East !dies.
During a journey in the Moluccas (1855) he succeeded in gathering an important
collection of animals. The collection was presented in 1930 to the
Zool. Mus. Amsterdam by a son of his foster-daughter (Ms. Cat. in "Artis").
Jutting 1939, p. 180, 183, 234, 237; 1950, p. 140; Dance 1966, p. 285. NNBW
II, col. 1459-1460. Kalff, in: De Indische Verlofganger 1926-1927, p. 568
(portr.); and 1927, in: Onze Stern p. 907; Stapel 1941, p. 94-95.
420. DIJCK, Bernard Eduard August van - 21 Febr. 1826 Dies sen - 12 Sept.
1881 Sint-Michielsgestel. Notary at Sint-Michielsgestel.
DIJCK, Franciscus Wilhelrnus van - 8 Febr. 1839 Diessen - 3 June 1878 Sint­
Michielsgestel. Candidate-notary.
Both brothers were bird-preparator. They possessed a collection of stuffed
birds (ca. 2,000 specimens), collected between 1850 and 1880. In 1934 and
1935 this collection was bequeathed by Father A.J.M. van Dijck to the seminary
"Beekvliet" at Sint-Michielsgestel (q.v). It was heavily damaged in
1945, but afterwards partly restored. As Beekvliet had to be shut in 1972,
the collection was sold partly to the Municipalty of Einill1oven (q.v.) (ca.
550 stuffed birds among which 227 Dutch specimens) and partly to the Natural
History Museum at Haas tricht (q. v.) (a.o. butterflies, fossils and shells).
H. Koller 1888: Naamlijst van in Nederland in den vrijen natuurstaat waargenomen
vogels, in: Bijdr. Dierk. p. 1-80; Versl. en Mededel. Ned. Ornithol.
Ver. IV, 1907, p. 40-53; R.J. Benthem 1941, in: Ardea XXX, p. 119-122;
W.H.Th. Knippenberg 1951: Vogelcollectie van Dijck, in: De Zwerver XI, p.
89-92; Brouwer 1954, p. 74-75; Avifauna van Noord-Brabant 1967, p. 29, 34-
39; Catalogus Natuurhistorisch Museum Beekvliet.
421. DIJKSTRA, Gerrit Hzn. - died 23 Nov. 1971 Leeuwarden. Inspector in
chief of the "Rijksbelastingen".
Already before World War II he possessed a collection of Macrolepidoptera,
that was lost during that war. In 1952 he started an inventory of Lepidoptera
of Friesland, together with collectors from that province. The collection
is in the RMNH. Lempke 1971, in: Entom. Ber. XXXI, p. 21-22.
422. DYLIUS, Daniel - 30 April 1776 Amsterdam - 9 March 1817 Utrecht. Physician
at Amsterdam; 1816 Prof. surgery and obstetrics, Univ. Utrecht.
Sale of books, and a cabinet of anatomical and pathological preparations in
liquor, left by D. Dylius and Cornelis Voet (Dr.med.) Amsterdam 23 June 1817
seq., cf. AKL 1817, I, p. 383, NNBW I, col. 784. E. Meiszner 1819: Bemerkungen
aus dem Taschenbuche eines Arztes 1819, p. 52. Album Stud. Acad.
Rheno-Traj. 1886, nr. 126 (portr.).
423. ECHT (Prov. Limburg) -
"Oudheid- en heemkundig museum Echt en omstreken".