The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Margaretha Hendrina van Otteren (1665 - 1700)
Botanical collector and slaveholderOther biography: Wikidata iD https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108737950 Relevant locations: Lived at or near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Relationships: Margaretha Hendrina van Otteren was a wife of Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland (1663-c. 1697)
References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 343.
Margaretha Hendrina van Otteren (Oldenland )
Cape of Good Hope .
Alchimilla
è Capite Bonæ Spei.
This rare Plant, with many others very curiously Preserved, Madam
This rare Plant, with many others very curiously Preserved, Madam
Widow to the late most ex
quisite Botanist Dr.
quisite Botanist Dr
was pleased to send me from the
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 21. From Madam MARGARETHA HENDRINA
van OTTEREN ,
andDr. OLDENLAND , at the Cape of Good
Hope , I have lately received the
had not seen before; so that I am extremely obliged to this
so generous a Benefactress, not only for these I have already
received from her (and those formerly from her
me over whatever
such
van OTTEREN
Widowto that late most curious
Botanist
and
Physician
Hope
compleat Specimensof several
, very finely Preserved, and many of them such as IPlants
had not seen before; so that I am extremely obliged to this
so generous a Benefactress, not only for these I have already
received from her (and those formerly from her
Learned Hus
band) but also for her kind Promises, in continuing to send
band
me over whatever
Plantsthat
Fertile Promontoryproduces, with
such
Shells, Insects, Reptiles, Fossils, &c. as are there to be got.