Baster, Job |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) |
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Born: 1711, Zierikzee, Z., Holland. Died: 1775, Leiden, Holland |
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Medical doctor, algologist, friend of Miller. He is commemorated in the genus Basteria Mill. |
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In Herb. Linnaeus = Linn. Soc. Lond. [LINN]: > 300 plants from Java, pres. by Dr Baster from Zealand (Holland).1 It is improbable that he himself was the collector. |
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(1) cf. Lasègue, Mus. Bot. Deless., 1845, p. 357; and Kreutzer, Das Herbar, 1864, p. 168. |
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Pritzel, Thes. Lit. Bot., 1872; F. Nagtglas, Levensberichten v. Zeeuwen 1, 1890; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931, p. 23; Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 50, 1940, p. 184; l.c. 51, 1941, p. 341-342; Basteria 40, 1976, 146-148. |