Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll
Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll | |
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| Born | Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll 23 June 1862 Artis, the Amsterdam zoo; a member of the Netherlands Entomological Society and the Société entomologique de France . |
Jacob Rudolph Hendrik Neervoort van de Poll (23 June 1862 in
Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven
, curator of the Leiden Museum, in his honour.
Life
Jacob Neervoort, grew up in
Dutch Antilles and joined a diplomatic and trade delegation to Japan. In 1887, he married his wife living in Herengracht on the Golden Bend, then in 1894, they moved to Beukenstein in Driebergen
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Neervoort van de Poll amassed a vast beetle collection, much of it purchased from the Paris insect dealers Auguste Sallé and Émile Deyrolle. It included many expensive beetles, especially (Jewel scarabs). In the Japanese garden, he commissioned a pagode built for his collection.[2] The collection was sold on his death and specimens are now found in many museum collections.
Works
With the exception of a monograph on the Australian buprestid genus Astraeus C. et G.Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie and Bulletin de la Société entomologique de Belgique.[4]
Some beetles from Australia that bear his name
- Cyclocranium Swierstrae v.d. Poll
- Aphneope quadrimaculata v.d. Poll
- Zoëdia longipes v.d. Poll
- Zoëdia gracilipes v.d. Poll
- Zoëdia tenuis v.d. Poll
- Ochyra nana v.d. Poll
- Mesolita inermis v.d. Poll
- Mesolita Pascoei v.d. Poll.[5]
- Typhocesis floccosa v.d. Poll
Sources
- ^ Zaal, W. (2001) Het huis aan de Bocht. Herengracht 476, p. 53-56.
- ^ Hoofdstraat 57 "Beukenstein"
- ^ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 32:79-110 (1889)
- ^ J.R.H. Neervoort van de Poll, Les Cicindélides de l'ile de Curaçao, avec description d'une Tetracha nouvelle, Notes from the Leyden Museum, Deel VIII, 1886;
- ^ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 1890-1891, dl. 34.
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