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Veldkamp, Jan Frederik |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
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Born: 1941, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Botanist, educated at Leiden University, where he took his Ph.D. degree in 1973. Since 1967 a staff member of the Rijksherbarium, Leiden, in charge of the Malesian Gramineae. He made an expedition to New Guinea, after which he stayed in Indonesia (mainly Bogor) till Sept. 1972. |
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1972. Papua & New Guinea: with P.F. Stevens (see also Cruttwell and Pullen): Tumba (May 25-29), Goroka (31), Goropu-complex or Mt Suckling (June 7-July 25),1 collecting around the base camp Mayu II (1750 m), at a grass plain (Pumpunipon, 2000 m) where -8°C was measured, ascending to God Dendeniwa (3625 m), back to base and ascending Manurep or Mt Suckling (3676 m) via God (3580 m).-Centr. Java: Dieng plateau (Aug. 14).-Bali: Batur (Aug. 21).-W Java: Bogor (Sept. 15). |
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The New Guinea specimens will be deposited in Herb. Leiden [L], Lae [LAE], B.P. Bish. Mus. [BISH], Canberra [CANB], Bog. [BO], the Java specimens in Herb. Leiden [L] and Bog. [BO]. The Malesian collections are numbered 5442-6040 and in the NGF and LAE series (with P.F. Stevens). |
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(1) J.F. Veldkamp: ‘A botanical Expedition to Mt Suckling (Goropu Mountains), Papua-New Guinea, 1972’ (stencilled report, Leiden 1973, 11 pp., map). |
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