. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Aaron M. Bauer: Early German Herpetological and Explorations in Southern Africa 197 1697), an apothecary bom in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) who had been in the service of the botanist An- dreas Cleyer in Batavia. Claudius was sent to the Cape by Cleyer in 1682, but when Cleyer no longer required his services, he was taken on in the employ of the VOC (GuNN & CODD 1981; Wilson et al. 2002). Claudius had previously been employed to record in- formation about anim
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Aaron M. Bauer: Early German Herpetological and Explorations in Southern Africa 197 1697), an apothecary bom in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) who had been in the service of the botanist An- dreas Cleyer in Batavia. Claudius was sent to the Cape by Cleyer in 1682, but when Cleyer no longer required his services, he was taken on in the employ of the VOC (GuNN & CODD 1981; Wilson et al. 2002). Claudius had previously been employed to record in- formation about animals and plants gleaned on the ear- lier but less grand expedition of Olof Bergh to Nama- qualand in 1683. In all CLAUDIUS rendered 72 paintings that were sent with van DER Stel's report of the jour- ney to the VOC headquarters in Amsterdam and subse- quently found their way into the collection of Trinity College, Dublin (Waterhouse 1932, 1979). Other im- portant sets of Claudius drawings are in collections known as the Icones Plantarum et Animalium in the Af- ricana Museum (Johannesburg), reported on by Ken- nedy (1967) and the Codex Witsenii in the South Afri- can Museum (Cape Town), reviewed and reproduced by Barnard (1947) and Wilson et al. (2002). A smaller collection of illustrations in the Africana Museum was noted and reproduced by both Smith (1952) and Ken- nedy (1967), and the contents of a small set of Claudius illustrations (14) in the National Library of South Africa (formerly South African Public Library, Cape Town) has been summarized, and reproduced in part by Rookmaaker (1989). Several other sets of Claudius drawings, or copies thereof are also present in European collections (GUNN & CODD 1981). Rookmaaker (1989) provided a concordance among the Claudius illustrations that are present in several important collections. The versions of the illustrations differ, in some cases significantly, and some are the work of unknown copyists rather than Claudius him- se
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