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

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

Born: 1869, Leiden, Z.H., Holland. Died: 1962, Netherlands.

career:

Was educated at the Naval School at Amsterdam and went to the D.E.I. in 1888 in the employ of the Royal Dutch Navy; in 1902 promoted captain; pensioned off in 1915. After his return in Holland he was appointed Director of the division of Geography and Ethnography of the Maritime Museum ‘Prins Hendrik’, Rotterdam; he resigned in 1934.

He was a member of the Wichmann and of both Lorentz expeditions to New Guinea (cf. respectively sub G.M. Versteeg and L.S.A.M. von Römer).¹

The genus Nouhuysia Laut. and some plant species were named in his honour.

Collecting localities:

2nd Lorentz Expedition to Dutch S. New Guinea, 1909-10. L.S.A.M. von Römer (itiner., liter., etc. see there) who undertook the botany department of the expedition, was not allowed to participate in the last stretch to the snow mountains, with a view to the necessity to minimize baggage. Proceeding from Top bivouac in the Hellwig Mts (Oct. 27, 1909); Treub bivouac in the Treub Mts (2360 m alt.) (27); Tigang bivouac (2000 m) (28); Papoea bivouac (c. 1670 m) (29); Nood bivouac (2523 m) in the Wichmann Mts (30); Wichmann bivouac (3081 m) (31); Hubrecht Valley (Nov. 3); Waterval bivouac (4); Oranje bivouac (3740 m) (5); Vallei bivouac (3570 m) (6); Wilhelmina bivouac (c. 4000 m) (7); Wilhelmina summit (170 m below the highest point) (8) and Ramp bivouac; Matigheids bivouac (3850 m) (11-20); several intermediate bivouacs (Lorentz still being a poor walker after his previous fall) on the way to Waterval bivouac (27); Hubrecht bivouac (29); Hubrecht Valley; Papoea bivouac (Dec. 5); Top bivouac (9-10); passing Erica summit to Perameles bivouac (12); Alkmaar bivouac (15), from where van Nouhuys made a trip to the Noordwest River (Jan. 3-13, 1910) and explored the Schultz River (27-28).

collections:

Herb. Utrecht [U]: 24 mountain plants (coll. Nov.-Dec. 1909).²

Some results were published in Nova Guinea vol. 8.

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Voordracht over den ontdekkingstocht in Nieuw Guinea, waarbij het Sneeuwgebergte werd bereikt’ (Ver. Moederland en Koloniën 11, 1911, no 1); ‘Een en ander over onzen tocht naar het Sneeuwgebergte van Ned. Indië’ (Tijdschr. K.N.A.G. 1910, p. 799-809, 3 figs); ‘De vaststelling eener tropische sneeuwgrens op Nieuw Guinea’ (Versl. der voordrachten v.h. Bat. Gen. der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte 1, 1917-18, p. 205-215); ‘Over de herkomst en het gebruik van tabak op Nieuw Guinea’ (Mensch en Maatschappij 8, 1932, p. 75-79).

(2) cf. Bull. Mij Bevord. Natuurk. Onderz. Ned. Kol. no 63, p. 23.

biographical data:

Wie is dat? 1935, p. 270 and l.c. 1938; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936; Tijd. Kon. Ned. Aardr. Gen. 2e reeks 81, 1964, p. 1-4, portr., bibliogr.

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