the city of Kampen had within its walls a liontower with lions sent over from Portugal (1477) and Spain (1483). The prosperous Dutch cities illustrated their position by keeping "royal" animals like lions and birds of prey (esp. At about the same period the Dukes of Guelre had a menagerie on their castle Rozendaal near Arnhem. The oldest data are from the mid fourteenth century when William IV, Count of Holland, kept living lions, falcons and bears on his estate in the Hague. The period until ca The first period witnessed the beginnings of natural history collecting in the Netherlands, It played an important role in stressing the social status of the nobility and the emergent class of wealthy burghers. Pieter SmitĨ ii Introduction By way of introduction I would like to give some characteristics of the major periods in the history of Dutch zoological collecting. We hope that others will follow their example and contribute to the exploration of a very interesting, but neglected part of Dutch cultural and scientific history. Jaap van der Veen's study on seventeenth-century collections in Amsterdam and Miss lhea Nederveen's prosopography of collectors residing in The Hague).
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It has already proved its use for two recently finished master theses (resp. Engel's list is nothing more but nothing less than a basic tool for further historical research. survey of the sources, first general books of reference, then more specific publications. The information is arranged according to the following scheme: name dates of birth and death profession data on the nature of the collection, with, if available, supplementary information on drawings, instruments, books, etc. Therefore only the major collectors have been included, Engel's list contains a tremendous lot of information both on the cabinets and their owners. In this case completeness would have resulted in a list of inordinate length. For the 19th and 20th centuries we could not be but selective. Even if there was only slight evidence that a certain cabinet contained zoological material, it got a place in the list. Occasionally one can perhaps speak of over-completeness. Only for the period before 1800 a certain degree of completeness can be claimed. Although the number of entries has been augmented by more than SO%, the new list still does not give an exhaustive survey of the Dutch zoological collectors. Amsterdam, Haarlem, Dordrecht, Rotterdam, Delft, Utrecht and Zutphen) and from the Artis-Library (Amsterdam) and the Biohistorical Institute (Utrecht). We prepared them for the printer and supplemented them with easily accessible information from a number of municipal archives (esp. The second edition of his invaluable list is essentially based on data brought together by Engel. Engel-Ledeboer presented me with her late husband's manuscript and notes. His death in 1981, prevented the realization of this plan. Engel's well-known "Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries" published almost fifty years ago in the Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde XXVII, 1939, p Engel soon started to collect material for a second edition of his list. Hendrik Engel ( ) at the age of 70.ħ i Preface The basis of the present publication is H. SISO UDC 591(03.2) Trefw.: zoi.ilogische verzamelingen Nederland Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam 1986 Printed in The NetherlandsĦ Pl. 19) Eerder verschenen in "Bijdragen tot de dierkunde" ISBN X geb. (Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen, ISSN no. by Pieter Smit with the assistance of A.P.M.
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van der Veer (Biohistorical Institute, State University Utrecht)ĥ Published with the generous assistance of the Prins Bernhard Fonds CIP-GEGEVENS KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK, DEN HAAG Engel, Hendrik Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries/ prep. SneldersĤ Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List of Dutch Zoological Cabinets and Menageries Second, enlarged edition Prepared by Pieter Smit with the assistance of A.P.M. 1 Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List of Dutch Zoological Cabinets and MenageriesĢ Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List of Dutch Zoological Cabinets and Menageriesģ Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen No.