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Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Burnett, Gilbert

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

career:

A Queensland District Forest Inspector who visited Papua in 1908 for the purpose of reporting on the timber resources of the Territory.¹

Collecting localities:²

1908, SE. New Guinea, Papua: trip up the Vailala; Kemp Welch District; visiting various places right along the coast from the Purari Delta in the Gulf of Papua, to Samarai, and in the vicinity of Buna Bay on the NE. coast.

collections:

Of the numerous timbers listed in the cited report, with 2 or 3 exceptions, only native Papuan names are given. According to C.T. White a fine opportunity was lost of doing good botanical work. Probably no collections made.

literature:
(1) G. Burnett: ‘Timber trees of the Territory of Papua’ (issued by Dept of Ext. Affairs, Melbourne 1908, 45 pp.).
(2) cf. Ann. Rep. Papua for 1907-08, 1908, p. 51, 58 en 121.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Burnett, Gilbert
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: A Queensland District Forest Inspector who visited Papua in 1908 for the purpose of reporting on the timber resources of the Territory.¹
	Collecting localities:² 1908, SE. New Guinea, Papua: trip up the Vailala; Kemp Welch District; visiting various places right along the coast from the Purari Delta in the Gulf of Papua, to Samarai, and in the vicinity of Buna Bay on the NE. coast.
	collections: Of the numerous timbers listed in the cited report, with 2 or 3 exceptions, only native Papuan names are given. According to C.T. White a fine opportunity was lost of doing good botanical work. Probably no collections made.
	literature: (1) G. Burnett: ‘Timber trees of the Territory of Papua’ (issued by Dept of Ext. Affairs, Melbourne 1908, 45 pp.). (2) cf. Ann. Rep. Papua for 1907-08, 1908, p. 51, 58 en 121.