Career

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Broekhuijsen, Dr H.O.

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

= probably Gerrit Jeronoimo Broekhuysen. Born: 1908, Java.

career:

Zoologist who studied biology at Leiden University (1929-33); Ph.D. 1936. From 1937-39 at the University Capetown; entomologist at Pretoria, 1939-41; freshwater biologist Java, 1941-46; at present in the Dept of Zoology University Capetown, Randebosch, S. Africa.

Numerous zoological, especially ornithological publications.

collections:

He evidently collected some grasses for Dr H.C.D. de Wit during the Japanese occupation of Java (at least on 28-10-2603, Jap. chronology); in Herb. Bog. [BO].