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Flood

 

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

 

career:

An American collector of natural history objects, who collected some plants in Timor (Lesser Sunda Isls), and evidently in N. Australia.

A.E. Pratt1 mentions Flood’s arrival at Port Moresby in mid-1901, from where he proceeded without company to Wanapa, for the collecting of land molluscs; later on nothing but his bivouac was found.

 

collections:

Danser in his monograph on Loranthaceae cited some specimens collected by him in Timor; preserved in Herb. Kew [K].

 

literature:

(1) in ‘Two years among the New Guinea Cannibals’ (London 1906) p. 181.