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Edmund Reitter "Natural History Institute" 1879 -1880 Vienna, 1881-1891 Mödling, after 1891 Paskau and  Munich (extant).
Carl Ribbe
Heinrich Ribbe (1832–1898) Entomologist and dealer in Berlin
Hermann Rolle Berlin
William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868–1957) 57 Haverstock Hill, London fl. 1920s. Claimed to hold 5,000 bird species as scientific skins (and to be the largest bird skin dealership in the world). Supplier to museums and private collectors. Traveller.
Emil Adolf Rossmässler Natural History dealer
Karl Rost
Fritz Rühl
Auguste Sallé
L.W. Schaufuß else E. Klocke, Dresden
Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede
Wilhelm Schlüter
Gustav Schneider (1867–1958) Basel
Gustav Schrader
Wilhelm Schlüter
Abraham Scrivener (fl. 1840s) naturalist and merchant with a shop at Deptford Bridge, Greenwich.
Paul Smart
Southwick & Jencks’ Natural History Store Providence, Rhode Island
Otto Staudinger
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Marine specimens.
Wilh. Steeg "Dr. Steeg & Reuter" after 1879. Crystallographic microscope slides.
Alexandre Stuer(fl. 1890s-1920?) Paris mineral dealer. Owner of Comptoir Géologique et Minéralogique, 40, rue de Mathurins and at 4, rue de Castellane.
John Crace Stevens Covent Gardens auctioneer.
Emanuel Sweerts (1552–1612) Dutch merchant and natural history dealer.

Rudolf Tancré (1842–1934) Anklam, Pomerania Dealer in Lepidoptera mainly of Central Asia and Siberia.
Georg Thorey - Hamburg pharmacist and beetle collector. Also sold beetles to other natural history collectors.
Johann Friedrich Gustav Umlauff (1833–1889) Proprietor of prominent Hamburg-based natural history and ethnographic dealership and associated museum.
Unio Itineraria a German Scientific Society based in Esslingen am Neckar sold specimens as a dealership.
Van Ingen & Van Ingen
Jules Verreaux Owner of Maison Verreaux, established in 1803 by his father, Jacques Philippe Verreaux, at Place des Vosges in Paris, which was the earliest known company that dealt with objects of natural history.
Jean Villet Cape Town
Voigt & Hochgesang Göttingen
Józef Warszewicz Guatemala 1844–1850
Henry Augustus Ward Founder of Ward's Natural History Establishment in Rochester, New York.
Rowland Ward London
White Watson
William Watkins Began trading in 1874 in Eastbourne. In 1879 the address was 36 The Strand, London. In 1907 the dealership became Watkins & Doncaster (1907). In 1937 ownership passed to Frederick Metté an expert on bird eggs.
Frank Blake Webster's Naturalists Supply Depot 409 Washington Street, Hyde Park, Massachusetts
Walter Freeman Webb (1869–1957) Shell dealer St. Petersburg, Florida
Henry Whitely
Bryce McMurdo Wright father (1814–1875) or son (1850–1895), both with same name and both dealers at 90 Great Russell Street, London. They dealt in minerals and fossils, ethnographic and archaeological objects.
Bohuslav Železný  Prague 1890-? Lepidoptera.
Karl Wahnes New Guinea, Borneo, Solomon Islands Leipoptera, Coleoptera, Birds
Emil Weiske Saalfeld Insect and bird collector and dealer.
Rudolf Zimmermann (1878–1943) mineralogist and dealer in natural history specimens for schools based in Chemnitz, Saxony. Author of Die Mineralien. Eine Anleitung zum Sammeln und Bestimmen derselben nebst einer Beschreibung der wichtigsten Arten

== See also ==
Insektenbörse
Taxidermists

== References ==

Mark V. Barrow, 2000 The Specimen Dealer: Entrepreneurial Natural History in America's Gilded Age Journal of the History of Biology 33: 493–534 [1]
Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf) 1904-1912 The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. British Museum London, Printed by order of the Trustees
Horn et al., 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Berlin.
Mearns B. & Mearns R., 1998: The Bird Collectors. Academic Press, London

== External links ==

Archive of taxidermists