Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll

Jacob Rudolph Hendrik Neervoort van de Poll (23 June 1862, Den Bosch - 12 December 1924, Monaco) was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was the vice-president of Artis, the Amsterdam zoo; 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, curator of the Leiden Museum, in his honour.

Life

Jacob Neervoort, grew up in Velsen with his aunts. In 1880 his stepfather died at the age of 42 and left the Rijksmuseum a collection of 52 paintings. For this gift his son was allowed to carry the name Van de Poll.^[1] Neervoort collected paintings, especially from the Barbizon School and the Hague School, travelled to the Dutch Antilles and joined a diplomatic and trade delegation to Japan. In 1887 he married. Till 1894 they lived on Herengracht, on the Golden Bend. Then the couple moved to Beukenstein in Driebergen.

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 had a sort of 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.^[3] 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 Société entomologique de Belgique.^[4]

Some beetles from Australian 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

1. ^ Zaal, W. (2001) Het huis aan de Bocht. Herengracht 476, p. 53-56.
2. ^ Hoofdstraat 57 "Beukenstein"
3. ^ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 32:79-110 (1889)
4. ^ 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;
5. ^ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 1890-1891, dl. 34.

External links

• Biographien der Entomologen der Welt at www.zalf.de

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Name	Neervoort van de Poll, Jacob R. H.
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Date of birth	23 June 1862
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Date of death	12 December 1924
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