Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

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

Born: 1899, Stockholm, Sweden.

career:

Officer in the Royal Horse Guards, who served in the Hungarian (1933) and Polish army (1937); retired after the war. In 1950-51 member of the Australian Hallstrom Expedition to Jimmi and Ganz Rivers in New Guinea, to find rare animals and birds of paradise and to contact unknown tribes of pygmies in the Bismarck and Schrader Ranges.¹

Collecting localities:

1950. Central Highlands E. New Guinea, Nondugl (Nov.); Jimmi River Valley, Lae (Dec.); Bismarck Mts.

collections:

15 specimena in Herb. State Mus. Stockholm [S].

literature:

(1) A.A. Vogel: ‘Papuans and pygmies’ (London 1953; transl. from the Swedish ed.; Germ. ed. Zürich 1954).