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Hoed, Gerrit den

 

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

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

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

 

Born: 1907, Rotterdam, Holland.

 

career:

High school (M.U.L.O.) teacher, since 1930 in D.E. Indian Government service; first stationed in E. Java and since 1937 at Batavia (W. Java); after evacuation (from P.O.W. camp Siam) to Holland, he was reappointed teacher of natural history at secondary schools at Batavia in 1947. He is especially interested in plant sociology.

 

Collecting localities:

1930-37. E. Java. -Since 1937. W. Java: environs of Batavia,1 on the beach Moeara Heemraad (between Antjol and Prick), in Rawah Tembaga near Bekassi, etc.-1948. W. Java: Pasar Ikan (Jan. 3, 17), P. Purmerend in the Bay of Batavia (Aug. 1), with P. van der Meer.

 

collections:

Nos 1-21 in private Herb. (lost now); nos 22-47 (together with P. van der Meer, see there) in Herb. Bog. [BO]; 22 Compositae dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L]

Herb. Leiden [L]: nos 2000-2100 from above-mentioned localities coll. den Hoed & van der Meer (pres. 1949).

Herb. Leiden [L]: some tens of W. Java dupl. from Poentjak Pass, Tjikopo, Telaga Warna, Djakarta, Sukabumi, Pasar Ikan, P. Purmerend (Bay of Djakarta), etc., all of them collected in 1948.

 

literature:

(1) G. den Hoed & P. van der Meer: ‘Ruderaalplanten bij Batavia’ (Trop. Nat. 30, 1941, p. 78-79); ‘Over plassen en moerassen’ (I) (l.c. p. 181-184, 3 fig.).