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Roux, Jean

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

Born: 1876, Geneva, Switzerland. Died: 1939, Basel, Switzerland.

career:

Zoologist, educated at Geneva; since 1902 Custodian of the Natural History Museum, Basel. He accompanied H. Merton (see there for itiner., liter., etc.) on a voyage to the Aroe and Kai Islands from Oct. 1907-Aug. 1908.¹ In 1911/12 he accompanied Fritz Sarasin to New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. He retired in 1937.

collections:

Evidently he made a botanical collection too.²

The ethnological objects preserved at Frankfurt and Basel.

literature:

(1) J. Roux: ‘Deux archipels voisins de la Nouvelle-Guinée, Îles Arou et Kei. Récit d’une exploration scientifique’ (Globe 49, 1910, Mdm. p. 1-37).
(2) cf. l.c. p. 10.

biographical data:

Verh. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 1940, p. 487-493, incl. bibliogr.; Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 51, 1939/40 (1940), p. 264-271, incl. bibliogr. + portr.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Roux, Jean
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1876, Geneva, Switzerland. Died: 1939, Basel, Switzerland.
	career: Zoologist, educated at Geneva; since 1902 Custodian of the Natural History Museum, Basel. He accompanied H. Merton (see there for itiner., liter., etc.) on a voyage to the Aroe and Kai Islands from Oct. 1907-Aug. 1908.¹ In 1911/12 he accompanied Fritz Sarasin to New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. He retired in 1937.
	collections: Evidently he made a botanical collection too.² The ethnological objects preserved at Frankfurt and Basel.
	literature: (1) J. Roux: ‘Deux archipels voisins de la Nouvelle-Guinée, Îles Arou et Kei. Récit d’une exploration scientifique’ (Globe 49, 1910, Mdm. p. 1-37). (2) cf. l.c. p. 10.
	biographical data: Verh. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 1940, p. 487-493, incl. bibliogr.; Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 51, 1939/40 (1940), p. 264-271, incl. bibliogr. + portr.