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Amsterdam, 1930. Pictorial card (oblong, 9.0 x 14.0 cm). Hand-written and signed on verso. = Hand-written postcard by the Dutch malacologist Hendrik Engel of the Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam, to his colleague, the French marine biologist, ichthyologist, parasitologist, and director of the Service des Pêches Coloniales, Robert Philippe F. Dollfus (1887-1976). He was a son of the malacologist Gustave Frédérique Dollfus (co-author of the famous Les mollusques marins du Rousillon), and was interested in Mollusca himself. Paul Henri Fischer wrote his necrologie in the Journal de Conchyliologie 114(3-4), p. 131. On this postcard, Engel informs Dollfus on the dispatching of a few of Engel's offprints. The postcard illustration is a photo of the river Dinkel in Beuningen, the Netherlands, not far from where Engel lived.