Career

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Braun, Max

 

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

 

career:

Veterinary Surgeon in the Bismarck Archipelago, leader of the Ramu-Gogol expedition in 1913 (cf. sub K. Gehrmann).1 At an earlier date he made several expeditions in E. Africa.

 

collections:

Herb. Berl. [B]: 41 plants from the Bismarck Archipelago (pres. 1914-15).

Plants collected by him in Neu Pommern (= New Britain), Rabaul, and in Neu Lauenburg (= Duke of York Isl.) are referred to in the series ‘Beitr. Fl. Papuas.’, published in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. from 1912 onwards.

 

literature:

(1) M. Braun: ‘Bericht über die Ergebnisse der Landerkundung zwischen Gogol- und Ramu Fluss in Deutsch-Neuguinea’ (Mitt. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. 29, 1916, p. 51-81).