Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

 

Velasquez, Dr Gregorio T.

 

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

 

Born: 1901, Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines.

 

career:

Phycologist, B.S. (1925) and M.S. (1931) of the University of the Philippines; M.A. (1937) and Ph.D. (1939) of the University of Michigan, U.S.A. Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines.

uthor of numerous publications on Algae.

 

Collecting localities:

He collected Algae from numerous localities in the Philippines.

 

collections:

In Herb. Manila [PNH], and distributed to Leiden [L], Crypt. Herb. of Hokkaido [HAK] and Kagoshima Universities [KAG], Sing. [SING], Adelaide [AD], Hawaii [BISH], Berkeley [UC], Cambridge (Harvard) [GH], Michigan [MICH].

 

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Science 1949; ibid. 11. Biol. Sc. 9th ed. 1955; ibid. Physic. & Biol. Sc. 11th ed. 1967; Philip. Men of Science 1964.