BattenPoollAH

Career

Collecting localities

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Literature

Batten Pooll, Arthur Hugh

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1891, Rutland Lodge, Knightsbridge, London, England. Died: 1971 or early 1972, England.

career:

Was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied agriculture after having been in active service during World War I and subsequently in 1919 against the Bolsheviks. After having obtained his Diploma in Rural Economics, he studied at the School of Botany.

Traveller¹ in Dalmatia (1932), the Pacific Islands (Tahiti, Marquesas etc., 1934), New Zealand (1934/35), S. America (1935), Persia (1936), Morocco (1934, 1939), Bulgaria (1938), in the Malaysian region (1939/40, see below) and in Nigeria (1946/47).

He is commemorated in Lucuma batten-poollii Benoist.

Collecting localities:

1939. N. Sumatra: the plains, Brastagi Plateau, Telok Da (Sept. 30); islands W of Sumatra: Nias, Moussala (= P. Moesala) and the Mentawei Islands.-Malay Peninsula (Nov. 1939-Jan. 1940): Cameron Highlands around the Green Cow Tavern; Langkawi Islands, Pahang, Malacca-1940. SE. New Guinea: around Port Moresby and on the mainland opposite Yule Island.

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING]: about 450 specimens from Sumatra and Malaya; dupl. at Buitenzorg [BO] (68), and Kew [K]. Herb. Sydney [NSW]: New Guinea plants. Other collections to Kew [K], Paris [P], etc.

The specimens are carefully labelled, but the material is scrappy.

His notes were bombed at Liverpool.

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Some globe trottings with a rod’ (Spottiswoodes, Eton College, Windsor).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Batten Pooll, Arthur Hugh
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1891, Rutland Lodge, Knightsbridge, London, England. Died: 1971 or early 1972, England.
	career: Was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied agriculture after having been in active service during World War I and subsequently in 1919 against the Bolsheviks. After having obtained his Diploma in Rural Economics, he studied at the School of Botany. Traveller¹ in Dalmatia (1932), the Pacific Islands (Tahiti, Marquesas etc., 1934), New Zealand (1934/35), S. America (1935), Persia (1936), Morocco (1934, 1939), Bulgaria (1938), in the Malaysian region (1939/40, see below) and in Nigeria (1946/47). He is commemorated in Lucuma batten-poollii Benoist.
	Collecting localities: 1939. N. Sumatra: the plains, Brastagi Plateau, Telok Da (Sept. 30); islands W of Sumatra: Nias, Moussala (= P. Moesala) and the Mentawei Islands.-Malay Peninsula (Nov. 1939-Jan. 1940): Cameron Highlands around the Green Cow Tavern; Langkawi Islands, Pahang, Malacca-1940. SE. New Guinea: around Port Moresby and on the mainland opposite Yule Island.
	collections: Herb. Sing. [SING]: about 450 specimens from Sumatra and Malaya; dupl. at Buitenzorg [BO] (68), and Kew [K]. Herb. Sydney [NSW]: New Guinea plants. Other collections to Kew [K], Paris [P], etc. The specimens are carefully labelled, but the material is scrappy. His notes were bombed at Liverpool.
	literature: (1) Author of ‘Some globe trottings with a rod’ (Spottiswoodes, Eton College, Windsor).