FranckPF

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Franck, P.F.

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

Died: 194? in prisonercamp in Br. India.

career:

Was appointed taxidermist of the Zoological Museum at Buitenzorg, W. Java, in Nov. 1922. He accompanied Dammerman (see there) on his Soemba Expedition and during a fortnight’s stay in Karimondjawa Islands (N of Java); on his hunting tours he now and then collected plants, especially for the investigation of the food of bantengs.¹ In 1940 he was interned on account of his German nationality and later shipped to Br. India.

Collecting localities:

Soemba, with Dammerman (1925).-On the border between W. and Centr. Java: Rawah Lakbok (June 1933); E. Java: Jang Plateau (July 13-21, 1935);² W. Java: Tjikepoeh, jachtterrein (preserve) of the hunting-society Venatoria (mid-Aug. 1935 and Apr. 14-18, June 1938).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: 180 Java nos (pres. till 1938), principally from Tjikepoeh.

Hort. Bog.: a Spathoglottis from Soemba.

literature:

(1) P.F. Franck: ‘Waarnemingen over neushoorns en bantengs in het natuurmonument Oedjon Koelon’ (Versl. N.I. Ver. Nat. Besch. 1933/34, p. 40-54).
(2) P.F. Franck: ‘Het Hiang-Plateau als natuurreservaat’ (Natuur in Indië 1937, p. 33-41, w. ill.).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Franck, P.F.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Died: 194? in prisonercamp in Br. India.
	career: Was appointed taxidermist of the Zoological Museum at Buitenzorg, W. Java, in Nov. 1922. He accompanied Dammerman (see there) on his Soemba Expedition and during a fortnight’s stay in Karimondjawa Islands (N of Java); on his hunting tours he now and then collected plants, especially for the investigation of the food of bantengs.¹ In 1940 he was interned on account of his German nationality and later shipped to Br. India.
	Collecting localities: Soemba, with Dammerman (1925).-On the border between W. and Centr. Java: Rawah Lakbok (June 1933); E. Java: Jang Plateau (July 13-21, 1935);² W. Java: Tjikepoeh, jachtterrein (preserve) of the hunting-society Venatoria (mid-Aug. 1935 and Apr. 14-18, June 1938).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: 180 Java nos (pres. till 1938), principally from Tjikepoeh. Hort. Bog.: a Spathoglottis from Soemba.
	literature: (1) P.F. Franck: ‘Waarnemingen over neushoorns en bantengs in het natuurmonument Oedjon Koelon’ (Versl. N.I. Ver. Nat. Besch. 1933/34, p. 40-54). (2) P.F. Franck: ‘Het Hiang-Plateau als natuurreservaat’ (Natuur in Indië 1937, p. 33-41, w. ill.).