Dozy, Jean Jacques |
|
(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
|
Born: 1908, Rotterdam, Holland. |
|
Geologist educated at Leiden University (Ph.D. 1935); in the same year he entered the service of the B.P.M. (Royal Dutch Oil Co.), being stationed respectively in Dutch New Guinea (1936-early 1937), Guatemala (1937-39), Ecuador (1949-43), Persia (1944), U.S.A., Venezuela (1946-47), The Hague (Holland), Indonesia (1949-54), and since May 1955 in The Hague as Head of the Exploration B.Int.P.M. |
|
In 1936 he accompanied Colijn’s expedition to Carstensz Mts, West New Guinea (for itinerary cf. sub F.J. Wissel, who took care of botanical collecting). |
|
18 Alpine plants from Carstens Mts in private herbarium, brought home for his wife. The collection is occasionally on loan for study in Leiden Herbarium [L], and will in the future be presented to that institution. |