Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Lix, H.W.

 

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

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

 

career:

Collector, sent to New Guinea by the Natural History Museum at Paris in 1890.

 

Collecting localities:

1890. SE. New Guinea: Mt Yule; Nikura and Nabuapaka (S. coast). Also plants from NE. New Guinea (New Britain). See Index Herb. Pt II (Regn. Veg. 86) 1972.

 

collections:

Probably at Paris [P], mainly zoological, but at all events mosses too.1 The latter in Herb. Bescherelle.

 

literature:

(1) cf. V.F. Brotherus: ‘Some new species of Australian mosses described’ (Öfv. Finska Vet. Soc. Förh. Helsingf. 40, 1897/98, p. 175, 187).

For literature on his collections of fishes and birds cf. Wichmann, Entd. Gesch. N.G., in Nova Guinea 22, p. 835.