Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Carrick, John

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

Born: 1914, Glasgow, Scotland.

career:

Was educated in the University of Glasgow (B.Sc. 1938); 1940-46 in Military Service, from 1943 onwards in India; 1946-51 Lecturer in Mycology and Plant Pathology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; from 1952 Lecturer in Plant Physiology at the University of Malaya, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur; Senior Lecturer since 1960. His appointment as Field Pharmacognosist (Colombo Plan) terminated end 1967. In 1968 he moved to Adelaide, S. Australia. Liaison Officer at Kew in Apr. 1970.

Plant collections have been made in connection with a physiological-ecological study of lowland kerangas vegetation and soil.

Collecting localities:

1959. NW Borneo, Sarawak: Bako National Park (Apr. 18-May I1), with E.C. Enoch; Santubong (Apr.).-1961. Malaya: Jambu Bongkok Forest Reserve, Trengganu (Mar.); Menchali Forest Reserve, Pahang (Mar.); Tanjong Hantu Forest Reserve, Perak (Apr.); Sarawak: Bako National Park (Apr.).-1967. Padang area of Jambu Bongkok (Feb.-Mar.).

collections:

Main set in Herb. Univ. Mal. Kuala Lump. [KLU]; Sarawak dupl. in Herb. Sing. [SING] (600 nos), and in Herb. For. Dep. Sarawak [SAR]. No duplicates were made of the Forest Reserve collections. His personal numbers as far as the survey goes end with JC 1670 (P.C.S.M. no 2600).