Background
Jacob Neervoort, grew up in Velsen with his aunts.
Jacob Neervoort, grew up in Velsen with his aunts.
The butterfly Troides vandepolli was named, by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven, curator of the Leiden Museum, in his honour. 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. 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. lieutenant included many expensive beetles, especially (Jewel scarabs).
In the Japanese garden he had a sort of a pagode built for his collection. The collection was sold on his death and specimens are now found in many museum collections.
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. Typhocesis floccosa v.d.
He was the vice-president of Artis, the Amsterdam zoo. A member of the Netherlands Entomological Society and the Société entomologique de France.