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Kooper, Willem Johannes Cornelis

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

Born: 1888, Leiden, Z.H., Holland. Died: 1945, Holland.

career:

Botanist, educated at Utrecht University, where he took his Ph. Dr’s degree when on European furlough in 1927.¹ After having been Custodian of the Botanical Museum, Utrecht, he went to the D.E.I. as Group-Adviser of the Experiment Station for the Java Sugar Industry at Pasoeroean, 1921-26; subsequently Agricultural Adviser of the International Credit and Commercial Company Rotterdam (lnternatio) at Semarang, 1927-33; after his retirement he returned to Holland and settled at Utrecht as a psycho-analyst.

Collecting localities:

E. Java. 1923. Pandaän, s.f. Alkmaar, Pasoeroean (G. Semongkrong, Bangil, Probolinggo, Modjokerto, etc.).-1924. Kediri, Bangil.-1925. Soember Brantas, Batoe.-1926. G. Tengger.-1927-33. Centr. Java: in Soebah (Aug. 1932), etc.

collections:

Private Herbarium: > 3065 nos; Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: 103 nos (also A nos) (1923-26); Herb. Bog. [BO]: dupl. from Pasoer. + 130 nos (pres. 1932/33); a few in Herb. Univ. Amsterdam [AMD].

literature:

(1) W.J.C. Kooper: ‘Sociological and ecological studies on the tropical weedvegetation of Pasuruan (the island of Java)’ (Rec. Trav. Bot. néerl. 24, 1927, p. 1-256; thesis, Utrecht).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Kooper, Willem Johannes Cornelis
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1888, Leiden, Z.H., Holland. Died: 1945, Holland.
	career: Botanist, educated at Utrecht University, where he took his Ph. Dr’s degree when on European furlough in 1927.¹ After having been Custodian of the Botanical Museum, Utrecht, he went to the D.E.I. as Group-Adviser of the Experiment Station for the Java Sugar Industry at Pasoeroean, 1921-26; subsequently Agricultural Adviser of the International Credit and Commercial Company Rotterdam (lnternatio) at Semarang, 1927-33; after his retirement he returned to Holland and settled at Utrecht as a psycho-analyst.
	Collecting localities: E. Java. 1923. Pandaän, s.f. Alkmaar, Pasoeroean (G. Semongkrong, Bangil, Probolinggo, Modjokerto, etc.).-1924. Kediri, Bangil.-1925. Soember Brantas, Batoe.-1926. G. Tengger.-1927-33. Centr. Java: in Soebah (Aug. 1932), etc.
	collections: Private Herbarium: > 3065 nos; Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: 103 nos (also A nos) (1923-26); Herb. Bog. [BO]: dupl. from Pasoer. + 130 nos (pres. 1932/33); a few in Herb. Univ. Amsterdam [AMD].
	literature: (1) W.J.C. Kooper: ‘Sociological and ecological studies on the tropical weedvegetation of Pasuruan (the island of Java)’ (Rec. Trav. Bot. néerl. 24, 1927, p. 1-256; thesis, Utrecht).