. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig 20: The main building of the Friedrich-Wilhelms- Univer- sität zu Berlin (now Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on Unter den Linden in 1852 (F. Hirschenheim after C. Würbs). The Zoological Museum was housed on the second floor of the east wing of the building. Both Lichtenstein and Peters spent their directorships in these cramped quarters. Image courtesy of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. The Bloch and von Borcke African Collections When LICHTENSTEIN
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig 20: The main building of the Friedrich-Wilhelms- Univer- sität zu Berlin (now Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on Unter den Linden in 1852 (F. Hirschenheim after C. Würbs). The Zoological Museum was housed on the second floor of the east wing of the building. Both Lichtenstein and Peters spent their directorships in these cramped quarters. Image courtesy of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. The Bloch and von Borcke African Collections When LICHTENSTEIN became director of the Zoological Museum, the only southern African herpetological specimens present were derived from the large and im- portant private collection of Marcus (Markus) Elieser (Elisar) Bloch (1723-1799; Fig. 21), a physician who received his training at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. Bloch'S chief interest was in ichthyology, where he made valuable contributions through his scholarly publications (Paepke 1999). He also pub- lished in herpetology, but his greatest contribution to this field was his collection, which was one of the pri- mary sources of the material described by Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822) in his Historia Am- phihionim, published in two parts in 1799 and 1801. In 1802 Bloch's collections and catalogues were sold to the Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, and in 1810 they were turned over to the newly founded Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin (Karrer et al. 1994; Paepke 1999).. Fig. 21: Marcus Eliesar Bloch (1723-1799). Engraving by Johann Georg Krüger, from Krünitz (1784). Original size 10 X 15 cm. Image courtesy of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Historische Bild- und Schriftgutsammlungen (Bestand: GNF, Signatur: PM II, 16a). Bloch'S herpetological catalogue has not been located, but an early unpublished list of the Museum holdings, the Katalog Inventariu
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