More than three years ago, on October 17, 2021, I published the first blog about Tera. This is the very last one I will write here. On December 7, 2024, I will hand over the website www.teravbj.nl to the Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences (Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap van Wetenschappen KNZW) in Middelburg. I am very […]

The last blog came online on February 26th. In the penultimate paragraph of that blog I wrote: A project like this is never completely finished. This is the last blog for now. However, I have since been put on the trail of new information. In 1978, Tera and Pico give an interview about their memories

In the previous blog I looked back at Tera as a person. In this blog some last loose ends and final thoughts on this project. Tera was cremated in Middelburg a few days after her death. The ashes have been scattered, there is no grave. Her estate is more than a million guilders. Her nephews

In the previous blog we read about Tera’s significance for science. In this blog I will look at  Tera as a person. Henny Coomans (1929-2010), her successor at the museum, speaks at her funeral. He talks about  the decorations, tokens and honorary memberships that fell to her and says: Now that the soul has left

Sometimes things go wrong and technology lets you down. Emails get lost in spam filters. That is why this guest blog didn’t reach me in time. Therefor you will receive  two blogs today. The Dutch Malacological Association (NMV) was founded on July 1, 1934, and had 33 members at its start. As soon as 1937

In the previous guest blog we looked at the shells that were named after Tera. In this blog we will look at Tera’s meaning for science. Tera begins to study Natural History in her high school years. She loves nature and describes in her diaries what she sees, what flowers bloom and what birds she

And then I received an email from Godfried van Moorsel  (Marine ecologist) with an overview of eponyms and an accompanying text. Enough information for a guest blog. On the opening page of this site it says: “You can see which shells she has named”. That is actually not correct: that list contains names of shells

The previous blog was an In memoriam for Pico who dies in August 1987. Here on the left Tera on a photo, early 1988, in front of the Wael. After Pico’s death, Tera decides, probably in consultation with Rinus de Bruijn, whom she has already appointed as executor of her will, and her niece Mien

In the previous blog we saw how Tera and Pico are getting older. Tera suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and Pico dies in August 1987. This blog is dedicated to Pico who has played such an important role in Tera’s life since the 1920s. Pieter Jacobus (Pico) van der Feen was born in Stratum (now part

In the previous blog we saw how Tera remains fully active within the Zeeland Society, within the Malacological Association and in Domburg. She enjoys the garden and keeps in touch with everyone. In 1977 there is a big hitch when Tera suffers a cerebral hemorrhage. She is now 78 years old. She temporarily lost her