Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

 

Semmelink, J.

 

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

Born: 1837. Died: 1912.

 

career:

Medical Officer in the D.E.I., 1859-82; stationed at Larantoeka, Flores (Lesser Sunda Isls), 1862-63; then at Besoeki (E. Java) in the employ of the Civil Medical Service, 1864-65.

 

Collecting localities:

Collected birds in Pleihari (SE. Borneo) in 1867 (cf. G.C.A. Junge in Ardea 41, Jub. no, 1954, p. 314).

 

collections:

Herb. Leiden [L]: some cryptogams from Flores (acq. 1864). In 1863 he sent a collection of animals to the Leiden Museum.

 

biographical data:

H. Engel, Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets etc. (Bijdr. t.d. Dierk. 27, 1939), p. 316.