HuitemaWK

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Huitema, Waling Karst

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

Born: 1899, Vreeswijk, U., Holland.
Died: Sept. 18, 1944, drowned o/b s.s. Zuynio Maru during a Japanese transport of P.O.W.’s, W of Padang.

career:

Was educated at Wageningen Agricultural College; he came out to Java in 1925, and was appointed in temporary employ of the Government Guttapercha Estate at Tjipetir (W. Java); since 1927 on the staff cf the General Agricultural Experiment Station at Buitenzorg. In 1935, during a European furlough, he took his Dr’s degree at Wageningen.

Collecting localities:

S. Sumatra: Palembang (Dec. 1929); N. Sumatra: Toba Lake (Sept. 1931); Banka (mid 1932).

collections:

Herb.Bog. [BO]: 127 nos Palembang, 133 nos Toba Lake, 50 nos Banka; Herb. Leiden [L]: dupl. Sumatra (coll. 1931). On each trip numbering was started anew.

	Career Collecting localities Collections
	Huitema, Waling Karst
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1899, Vreeswijk, U., Holland. Died: Sept. 18, 1944, drowned o/b s.s. Zuynio Maru during a Japanese transport of P.O.W.’s, W of Padang.
	career: Was educated at Wageningen Agricultural College; he came out to Java in 1925, and was appointed in temporary employ of the Government Guttapercha Estate at Tjipetir (W. Java); since 1927 on the staff cf the General Agricultural Experiment Station at Buitenzorg. In 1935, during a European furlough, he took his Dr’s degree at Wageningen.
	Collecting localities: S. Sumatra: Palembang (Dec. 1929); N. Sumatra: Toba Lake (Sept. 1931); Banka (mid 1932).
	collections: Herb.Bog. [BO]: 127 nos Palembang, 133 nos Toba Lake, 50 nos Banka; Herb. Leiden [L]: dupl. Sumatra (coll. 1931). On each trip numbering was started anew.