Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Havel, Jacoslav Joseph

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

Born: 1930, Stehelceves, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

 

career:

Commenced high school in Prague, but left in 1948 for Germany and later Australia. In Australia he worked for the W.A. Forest Department, completing his high school education by correspondence. He studied forestry in Perth and Canberra, graduated April 1955, Dip. Forestry (Canberra), B.Sc. For. (W.A.). He joined the New Guinea Forest Department engaged on reafforestation in Bulolo Valley.

 

Collecting localities:

About 1955 onwards. Mandated Territory of New Guinea: in Watut and Bulolo Valleys in connection with forestry activities.

 

collections:

In the N.G.F. series, Herb. Lae [LAE] (cf. New Guinea Forces).