Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll
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Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll (1862 - 1925) was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was a member of the Netherlands Entomological Society and the Société entomologique de France. The butterfly Troides vandepolli was named, by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven, director of the Leiden Museum, in his honour.
Neervoort van de Poll was a merchant in Amsterdam and an avid entomologist who 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). The collection was sold on his death and specimens are now found in many museum collections.
Jacob Neervoort inherited from through his aunts, who were both married to a Van de Poll, a family of bankers and burgomasters, not only a lot of money, but also a collection of paintings now in the Rijksmuseum. For this gift he was allowed to carry the name Van de Poll.[1] He lived on Herengracht 476, in a mansion on the Golden Bend.
With the exception of a monograph on the Australian buprestid genus Astraeus C. et G. [2]he published mostly short papers describing new species of showy beetles in the families Buprestidae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae either from his own collection or from those of the Leyden museum (now Naturalis or from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. These articles appeared in ''Notes from the Leyden Museum (most), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie and Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de Belgique.[3]
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- ^ 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;