HeusserC

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

Heusser, Dr Carl

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

Born: 1888, Glattfelden, N of Zürich, Switzerland

career:

Biologist in the employ of the General Experiment Station of the AN.R.O.S., Medan (Deli, Sumatra East Coast), 1918-32; since 1932 volontaire at the Plant Physiological Institute of the ‘Eidgenöss. Technische Hochschule’ at Zürich.¹ He visited Java, e.g. Tjibodas (slope G. Gedeh, W. Java) in May 1920.

Rhododendron heusseri J.J.Sm. was named after him.²

Collecting localities:

In or before 1932. Sumatra East Coast & Tapanoeli: G. Sibajak, Prapat, Samosir Peninsula (Toba Lake).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: 9 nos of Rhododendron (pres. 1932) and possibly few other plants. As early as 1920 he sent mosses to Herzog.

literature:

(1) Author with Dr E. Mjöberg of ‘De schelpenheuvel van Boeloe Tjina’ (Teysmannia 31, 1920, p. 443-446, 3 fig.).
(2) Description by Heusser in a paper of J.J. Smith in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 13, 1935, p. 448.

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Heusser, Dr Carl
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1888, Glattfelden, N of Zürich, Switzerland
	career: Biologist in the employ of the General Experiment Station of the AN.R.O.S., Medan (Deli, Sumatra East Coast), 1918-32; since 1932 volontaire at the Plant Physiological Institute of the ‘Eidgenöss. Technische Hochschule’ at Zürich.¹ He visited Java, e.g. Tjibodas (slope G. Gedeh, W. Java) in May 1920. Rhododendron heusseri J.J.Sm. was named after him.²
	Collecting localities: In or before 1932. Sumatra East Coast & Tapanoeli: G. Sibajak, Prapat, Samosir Peninsula (Toba Lake).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: 9 nos of Rhododendron (pres. 1932) and possibly few other plants. As early as 1920 he sent mosses to Herzog.
	literature: (1) Author with Dr E. Mjöberg of ‘De schelpenheuvel van Boeloe Tjina’ (Teysmannia 31, 1920, p. 443-446, 3 fig.). (2) Description by Heusser in a paper of J.J. Smith in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 13, 1935, p. 448.
	biographical data: Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.