List of natural history dealers
Natural history specimen dealers had an important role in the development of scence in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. They supplied the rapidly growing, both in size and number, museums and educational establishments and private collectors whose collections, either in entirety or parts finally entered museums. Most sold not just zoological , botanical and geological specimens but also equipment and books. Many also sold archaeological and ethnographic items.They purchased specimens from professional and amateur collectors, sometimes collected themselves as well as acting as agents for the sale of collections. Many were based in mercantile centres notably Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London or in major cities. Some were specialists and some were taxonomic authorities who wrote scientific works and manuals, some functioned as trading museums or institutes.
This is a list of natural history dealers during the 19th century: here are names that are frequently encountered in museum collections.
- Johan Hans Abegg (fl 1882-1885) Mineral collector and dealer in Zurich.
- Augustus Theodore Abel (?1802-1882); German Mineral resident in Ballarat.
- Anton Franz Abraham Preparator and dealer in educational materials at " "Naturhistorisches Institut" on Beatrixgasse, Vienna, 1896, on Ungargasse, Vienna in 1903-1906.Supplied specimens to Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
- Mary Anning
- Andreas Bang-Haas
- Otto Bang-Haas
- Max Bartel (1879-1914)Berlin
- Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
- Julius Böhm (ca.1850?-1925) Vienna mineral dealers as "Österr.-ungar. Mineralien-Comptoir" or Austro-Hungarian Mineral Dealership.
- Ernst A. Böttcher, Naturalien und Lehrmittel-Anstalt Berlin C. 2, Brüderstrasse 15.
- Adolphe Boucard
- Braun; Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-1864) Fossil and mineral dealer in Regensburg de:Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun
- Brendel and Sohn Botanical modelmakers in Breslau and Berlin.
- Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet ( Paris)
- Emile Clement Australia
- J. de Cristofori (Milan)
- Eduard Dämle Insect dealer in Hamburg.
- George Meyer Darcis fl.1880-1920 Switzerland.Herbarium and ornithology dealer.
- Émile Deyrolle (1838-1917) French naturalist and natural history dealer in Paris. The business was originally owned by his naturalist grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle who opened his shop in 1831 at 23, Rue de la Monnaie. Émile’s father Achille Deyrolle ran the business for many years. It is now at 46, rue du Bac, Paris
- Henri Donckier de Donceel Paris insect dealer
- Entomologisch Institut Hamburg (E. M. Schulz) Hamburg 22, Hamburgerstrasse 45.
- Josef Erber(ca.1830-ca.1918) Mineral and natural history dealer in Vienna St. Ullrich, Siebensterngasse No. 29.
- R. Fuess Berlin - Steglitz Heinrich Ludwig Rudolf Fuess (1838 - 1917).
- Gustav Adolph Frank (1809-1880) Natural history dealer in Amsterdam who had world-wide trade connections.
- Václav Frič (1839–1916)Prague
- Hans Fruhstorfer
- Adam August Krantz (1809-1872); Natural history dealer in Berlin after 1850 in Bonn.
- Frank H. Lattin & Co. Albion, New York
- Eugène Le Moult
- Maison Azoux
- Maison Tramond Established by the mid-19th century at 9 Rue de l' Ecole de Medicine in Paris.Later "Maison Tramond - N. Rouppert successeur".Models of human and comparative anatomy and osteological preparations.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt
- Gustav Paganetti-Hummler as Zoologische Institut für Balkanforschung des Gust. Paganetti-Hummler
- Ludwig Parreys (1796-1879 Parreys lived in Vienna where he was dealer in natural history objects.Trading as Ludwig and Joseph Mann he supplied zoological specimens to many leading taxonomists whose collections are now conserved by natural history museums.
- Andrew Pritchard London
- Lovell Augustus Reeve
- Johann Gustav Friedrich Umlauff (1833-1889) Proprieter of prominent Hamburg-based natural history and ethnographic dealership and associated museum.
- Unio Itineraria a German Scientific Society based in Esslingen am Neckar sold specimens as a dealership.
- Van Ingen & Van Ingen
- Jules Verreaux Owner of Maison Verreaux, established in 1803 by his father, Jacques Philippe Verreaux, at Place des Vosges in Paris, which was the earliest known company that dealt with objects of natural history.
- Jean Villet Capetown
- Voigt & Hochgesang Gottingen
- Henry Augustus Ward Founder of Ward's Natural History Establishment in Rochester, New York.
- Rowland Ward London
- White Watson
- Frank Blake Websters Naturalists Supply Depot 409 Washington St., Boston, Mass
- Walter Freeman Webb (1869-1957) Shell dealer St. Petersburg, Florida
- Rudolf Zimmermann (1878-1943) mineralogist and dealer in natural history specimens for schools based in Chemnitz, Saxony. Author of Die Mineralien. Eine Anleitung zum Sammeln und Bestimmen derselben nebst einer Beschreibung der wichtigsten Arten
References
- Mark V. Barrow , 2000 The Specimen Dealer: Entrepreneurial Natural History in America’s Gilded Age Journal of the History of Biology 33: 493–534 [1]
- Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf) 1904-1912 The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. British Museum London, Printed by order of the Trustees
- Horn et al., 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Berlin.
- Mearns B. & Mearns R., 1998: The Bird Collectors. Academic Press, London
See also