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Nyman, Erik Olof August

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

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

Born: 1866, Linköping, Sweden. Died: 1900, Munich, Germany.

career:

Botanist from Uppsala (Ph. Dr in 1896), who sailed for Java in February 1897, to make botanical investigations in the western part of that island.¹ He extended his researches to New Guinea, fell ill after some months’ stay and finally had to return to Java. When he went home in mid-1900, he did not reach his country, dying on the way thither.

He made ethnological and zoological collections too.

Some plants were named after him.

Collecting localities:

1897-98. W. Java:² at and near Buitenzorg, making several trips, to G. Salak (May 23, July 1897); Hort. Bog. (March, June 18, 1897); Zandbaai on the S. coast (July-Aug.; early in Aug. with Hj. Möller, see there); Wijnkoopsbaai (Aug.); G. Salak (Aug. and Sept. 10-11, Oct.); Tjisolok (Sept. 1897); P. Onrust (Oct. 27) and P. Edam (Nov.) in the Bay of Batavia; Zandbaai (end of Nov.-Dec. 1897 and Febr. 1898); G. Salak (June 23, 1898); Tjibodas (c. June 14-July 26), climbing G. Pangrango (July 16) and G. Gedeh (17-18); G. Salak (in July and Sept.).-1898. Moluccas: Banda and Ambon on the way to New Guinea.³-1898-99. NE. New Guinea, former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland: Stephansort and neighbourhood, and Konstantinhafen (Dec. 22, 1898-March 1899); Sattelberg (June and July 1899); Simbang near Finschhafen (Aug.); Bismarck Archipelago: Neu Pommern (= New Britain), in the vicinity of Herbertshöhe and the slopes of Mutter Volcano, and Neu Lauenburg (= Duke of York Island) (Aug.-Sept.); NE. New Guinea: Stephansort (Sept.-Oct.); Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Hansemannberg and Sattelberg (Oct.); in Nov. back to Java, from where sailing for Europe in June 1900, after having considerably enlarged his collections.

collections:

Herb. Uppsala [UPS]; dupt. at Lund [LD] and Stockholm [S]; Herb. Berl. [B]: plants from New Guinea and Bismarck Archip., 460 nos; and Fungi from Java and New Guinea; dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L]; Herb. Copenhagen [C] (New Guinea).

His total collections amount to more than 1000 nos, especially cryptogams;⁴ many of the phanerogams were collected in rice fields and mangrove forests.

The New Guinea plants were described by Schumann.⁵ The material of the S. coast of Java is said to be still unidentified in Herb. Berlin [B] (now probably destroyed).

A fine series in alcohol of Myrmecodia and Hydnophytum from Java in the Inst. of Plant Ecology, Uppsala.

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 23; Boedijn in l.c. p. 107.
(2) E. Nyman: ‘Botaniske excursioner på Java’ (Bot. Not. Lund for 1900, p. 117-122, 181-184). Several data derived from Warburg ‘Monsunia’ 1, 1900.
(3) cf. Verdoorn: ‘Asiatische Jubileae’ (Thesis 1934) p. 83.
(4) Fungi cf. in Warburg ‘Monsunia’ 1, 1900; and literature by Boedijn in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 107 etc.
(5) In ‘Nachträge z. Flor. d. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. i.d. Südsee’ (Leipzig 1905).

biographical data:

Wittrock, Icon. Bot. Berg., 1903, p. 65; and l.c. 2, 1905, p. 47, 208; Schumann & Lauterbach, Nachträge Fl. d. D. Schutzgeb. i.d. Südsee, 1905, p. 24-25 (transl. from Bot. Not. 1900); Krok, Bibl. Bot. Suecana, 1925, p. 562, incl. bibliogr.; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Nyman, Erik Olof August
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1866, Linköping, Sweden. Died: 1900, Munich, Germany.
	career: Botanist from Uppsala (Ph. Dr in 1896), who sailed for Java in February 1897, to make botanical investigations in the western part of that island.¹ He extended his researches to New Guinea, fell ill after some months’ stay and finally had to return to Java. When he went home in mid-1900, he did not reach his country, dying on the way thither. He made ethnological and zoological collections too. Some plants were named after him.
	Collecting localities: 1897-98. W. Java:² at and near Buitenzorg, making several trips, to G. Salak (May 23, July 1897); Hort. Bog. (March, June 18, 1897); Zandbaai on the S. coast (July-Aug.; early in Aug. with Hj. Möller, see there); Wijnkoopsbaai (Aug.); G. Salak (Aug. and Sept. 10-11, Oct.); Tjisolok (Sept. 1897); P. Onrust (Oct. 27) and P. Edam (Nov.) in the Bay of Batavia; Zandbaai (end of Nov.-Dec. 1897 and Febr. 1898); G. Salak (June 23, 1898); Tjibodas (c. June 14-July 26), climbing G. Pangrango (July 16) and G. Gedeh (17-18); G. Salak (in July and Sept.).-1898. Moluccas: Banda and Ambon on the way to New Guinea.³-1898-99. NE. New Guinea, former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland: Stephansort and neighbourhood, and Konstantinhafen (Dec. 22, 1898-March 1899); Sattelberg (June and July 1899); Simbang near Finschhafen (Aug.); Bismarck Archipelago: Neu Pommern (= New Britain), in the vicinity of Herbertshöhe and the slopes of Mutter Volcano, and Neu Lauenburg (= Duke of York Island) (Aug.-Sept.); NE. New Guinea: Stephansort (Sept.-Oct.); Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Hansemannberg and Sattelberg (Oct.); in Nov. back to Java, from where sailing for Europe in June 1900, after having considerably enlarged his collections.
	collections: Herb. Uppsala [UPS]; dupt. at Lund [LD] and Stockholm [S]; Herb. Berl. [B]: plants from New Guinea and Bismarck Archip., 460 nos; and Fungi from Java and New Guinea; dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L]; Herb. Copenhagen [C] (New Guinea). His total collections amount to more than 1000 nos, especially cryptogams;⁴ many of the phanerogams were collected in rice fields and mangrove forests. The New Guinea plants were described by Schumann.⁵ The material of the S. coast of Java is said to be still unidentified in Herb. Berlin [B] (now probably destroyed). A fine series in alcohol of Myrmecodia and Hydnophytum from Java in the Inst. of Plant Ecology, Uppsala.
	literature: (1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 23; Boedijn in l.c. p. 107. (2) E. Nyman: ‘Botaniske excursioner på Java’ (Bot. Not. Lund for 1900, p. 117-122, 181-184). Several data derived from Warburg ‘Monsunia’ 1, 1900. (3) cf. Verdoorn: ‘Asiatische Jubileae’ (Thesis 1934) p. 83. (4) Fungi cf. in Warburg ‘Monsunia’ 1, 1900; and literature by Boedijn in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 107 etc. (5) In ‘Nachträge z. Flor. d. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. i.d. Südsee’ (Leipzig 1905).
	biographical data: Wittrock, Icon. Bot. Berg., 1903, p. 65; and l.c. 2, 1905, p. 47, 208; Schumann & Lauterbach, Nachträge Fl. d. D. Schutzgeb. i.d. Südsee, 1905, p. 24-25 (transl. from Bot. Not. 1900); Krok, Bibl. Bot. Suecana, 1925, p. 562, incl. bibliogr.; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.