Tammes Room

One of the rooms in the University of Groningen Library (UB) is named after prof. Jantina Tammes (1871-1947). She went to an all-girls secondary school after which she attended lectures at the University of Groningen in biology, physics, and chemistry. After gaining both grades of secondary-school teaching qualifications, she became an unpaid assistant in the botanical laboratory in 1897. She concentrated on genetic research and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1911 for her work. Her first salaried appointment followed in 1912. In 1919 she became the second Dutch woman to be appointed professor by special appointment in Variability and Genetics.

The walls in the Tammes Room show the following images from the UB-Special Collections on a background of historical decorative paper:

Southwest Wall • Tine Tammes and Nature • from left to right:
a. Blacktailed godwit from Nozeman, Nederlandsche Vogelen
b. Red lily with insects from Merian, Surinaemsche insecten
c. Parrot (lory) from De Buffon, Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle
d. Official University-of-Groningen portrait of professor Tine Tammes
e. Autograph letter by Tine Tammes to Elisabeth Schiemann in Berlin d.d. 25 July 1929 (BC-archief Tammes)
f. Formal announcement of Tammes’ appointment in 1919 (BC-archief Tammes)

Southeast Wall • Alba Amicorum • from left to right:
a. Johannes Siertsema, fol. 54v-55r (uklu HS ADD 389)
b. Herman Pricker, fol. 41v-42r (uklu HS 214 M)
c. Harmen Jarges, fol. 10r (uklu HS 214 L)
d. Harmen Jarges, fol. XVIIIr-36r (uklu HS 214 L)
e. Eelco Tinga, fol. 1v-2r (uklu HS 214 P)
f. Harmen Jarges, fol. 2r (uklu HS 214 L)
g. Gerhard Jacob Keiser, fol. 3v-4r (uklu HS ADD 385)
h. Abel Coenders van Helpen, fol. 7v-8r (uklu HS 214 O)

Northeast Wall • Groningana • from left to right:
a. Work by Johan Dijkstra in Groninger Volksvertellingen (p. 93)
b. Work by Hendrik Werkman in Een suite van de zee
c. The Chronicle of Wittewierum Abbey (13th century), col. 167-172
d. Cicero, De officiis, 15th-century manuscript with autograph notes by Wessel Gansfort and Regnerus Praedinius
e. Sinterklaas, catchpenny print from our collection of the Kinderboekenhuis Winsum
f. Decorated initial featuring the weapon and name of Wilhelmus Frederici in a book printed c. 1476
g. Hendrik Werkman, The Next Call
h. Old en nei, poster print (1953) by Jan Boer and Jan van der Zee
i. Drawing by Hendrik de Vries (uklu archief De Vries, sketch book 7)

Northwest Wall • Geography • from left to right:
a. Map of Groningen province and its castles by Theodorus Beckeringh (1781)
b. Manuscript map of the river Eems near Delfzijl by Henricus Teysinga (1738)
c. Printed, hand-coloured map of the city of Groningen (1575)