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Brues, Beirne Barrett

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

Of Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

career:

Wife of C.T. Brues, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard University, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). She accompanied her husband on a trip to the D.E.I.

Collecting localities:

1936 or 1937.¹ In Sumatra visiting various regions in the north extending from Medan to Atjeh, to Pematang Siantar, to Fort de Kock and through the highlands to the W. coast and southward; Palembang and the highlands of southern Sumatra. Java: from Soerabaja to Batavia along the entire length of the island. Celebes: region about Makassar and the surrounding mountains; northern part of the island about Manado, Lake Tondano and the mountains of that region, e.g. Mt Sopoetan (Aug. 8, 1937).

collections:

Seeds of a species of Nepenthes.¹ According to a letter from America (addressed to Dr J. van der Vecht) Mrs Brues made a collection of grasses which will eventually be deposited in the Gray Herb. [GH] of Harvard University. They are as yet unidentified.

literature:

(1) cf. Bot. Mus. Leaf. Harv. Univers. 8, 1940, p. 65. The year of collecting mentioned herein is 1937. This does not agree with the above-mentioned letter, in which is stated the year 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Brues, Beirne Barrett
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Of Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
	career: Wife of C.T. Brues, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard University, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). She accompanied her husband on a trip to the D.E.I.
	Collecting localities: 1936 or 1937.¹ In Sumatra visiting various regions in the north extending from Medan to Atjeh, to Pematang Siantar, to Fort de Kock and through the highlands to the W. coast and southward; Palembang and the highlands of southern Sumatra. Java: from Soerabaja to Batavia along the entire length of the island. Celebes: region about Makassar and the surrounding mountains; northern part of the island about Manado, Lake Tondano and the mountains of that region, e.g. Mt Sopoetan (Aug. 8, 1937).
	collections: Seeds of a species of Nepenthes.¹ According to a letter from America (addressed to Dr J. van der Vecht) Mrs Brues made a collection of grasses which will eventually be deposited in the Gray Herb. [GH] of Harvard University. They are as yet unidentified.
	literature: (1) cf. Bot. Mus. Leaf. Harv. Univers. 8, 1940, p. 65. The year of collecting mentioned herein is 1937. This does not agree with the above-mentioned letter, in which is stated the year 1936.