Natural history association of the Rhineland and Westphalia

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The Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia is one of the oldest scientific associations in Germany with its headquarters in Bonn . The traditional club area extends over the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia and parts of Rhineland-Palatinate with the Saarland .

history

In 1834, on the initiative of Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen and Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , a botanical association was founded in Koblenz on the Middle and Lower Rhine . Karl Wilhelm Arnoldi , Johann Carl Fuhlrott and Louis Clamor Marquart were among the co-founders and first members who were accepted in August 1834 .

At the suggestion of the pharmacist and botanist Louis Clamor Marquart, this association was de facto dissolved in 1843 and an association that was expanded to include the Prussian Rhineland was reorganized. Marquart worked out the statutes of such an association with the Cologne pharmacist and botanist Johann Friedrich Sehlmeyer and the Elberfeld grammar school teacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott, and at Pentecost 1843 the founding meeting of the "Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland" was held in Aachen.

The club area, which initially included the old Prussian Rhine Province , was expanded to Westphalia in 1849 and the club was renamed the “Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia”.

General

The herbarium in Bonn with a collection of 200,000 exhibits became the property of the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem on December 1, 1936 . It is now in the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

The association's library with a holdings of 78,300 volumes of special and rare international natural history journals has been in the Central Library of Agricultural Science in Bonn since 1983 .

From 1844 the association published the negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland , from 1849 the negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia and from 1935 the Decheniana - negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia eV Johann Carl Fuhlrott published his famous in 1859 Report on the finds in the Neandertal .

Today the association regularly publishes the magazine Decheniana and the irregularly appearing supplements to the Decheniana . Its library includes 800 different scientific journals and series.

Writings of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine

  • First annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1837 digitized
  • Second annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1839 digitized
  • Third annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Dubois & Werle, Coblenz 1840 digitized

Writings of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland

  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland. First year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1844 digitized
  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland. Second year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1845 digitized
  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland. Third year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1846 digitized
  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland. Fourth year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1847 digitized
  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland. Fifth year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1848 digitized

Writings of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia

  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. Sixth year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1849 digitized
  • Negotiations of the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. Seventh year, Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1850 digitized

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ The approval of the responsible state minister Freiherr von Altenstein took place in June 1834
  2. ^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836
  3. ↑ Manfred Bässler: The herbarium of the area botany and arboretum of the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In: Wiss. Z. Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, Math.-Nat. R. 19 (2/3), 1970, 295-299
  4. ^ Paul Hiepko: The fate of the "Extra-Rhine Herbarium" of the Natural History Association for the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. ( online ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgbm.org
  5. ↑ Central Library of Agricultural Science
  6. ^ Johann Carl Fuhlrott: Human remains from a rock grotto in the Düsselthals. A contribution to the question about the existence of fossil humans. In: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia 16, 1859