SluiterCP

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Sluiter, Catharina Petronella

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

Born: 1883, Weltevreden, Java.

career:

Botanist, educated at Amsterdam and Zürich universities; collaborator of Mrs A. Weber-van Bosse, and in 1913 appointed Assistant at the Central Bureau for Fungi Cultures, Amsterdam. In 1915 she was enabled by a grant from the Buitenzorg Fund to make a tour to Java. Her main interest was soil Fungi, but besides she intended to get acquainted with the tropical flora.¹ In May 1916 she was appointed Assistant at the Research Station of the Government Cinchona Plantation at Tjinjiroean; in 1917 she continued research work at Medan in the Tobacco Experiment Station; since June at the Institute for Plant Diseases, Buitenzorg. Later she married Mr Feenstra, and lived at Amsterdam.

Collecting localities:

1915-16. Sumatra East Coast: Medan (July 21, 1915), making several excursions to different plantations, Sibolangit (Bot. Garden), and the Batak Lands; Aug. 18 leaving for W. Java, staying at Buitenzorg, making excursions to plantations; Centr. Java: Diëng Plateau (Nov. 19-22); Tjilatjap, Kinderzee and Noesa Kambangan (Dec. 18); W. Java: Tjibodas and G. Gedeh (Dec. 21-Jan. 2, 1916); G. Tangkoeban Prahoe (Jan. 23); Kawah Kamodjan (27), G. Papandajan (29); E. Java: Pasoeroean, mangrove forest (Loeroes); Banjoewangi, crossing Idjen Plateau to Pantjoer, Djemher; from Probolinggo to G. Tengger: Soekapoera, Zandzee and G. Bromo, Tosari.-1917. Sumatra East Coast: excursion to G. Sibajak and G. Sinaboeng (May); from Harengaul (May 16) to Toba Lake, Samosir, Balige, and via Siborong-borong to Sibolga (Tapanoeli), Fort de Kock, and Padang (Sumatra West Coast); back in Java, Batavia (June 6).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: small collection from G. Papandajan (W. Java). She occasionally brought plants for identification to the experiment stations visited. Some might have been preserved.

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 41.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Sluiter, Catharina Petronella
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1883, Weltevreden, Java.
	career: Botanist, educated at Amsterdam and Zürich universities; collaborator of Mrs A. Weber-van Bosse, and in 1913 appointed Assistant at the Central Bureau for Fungi Cultures, Amsterdam. In 1915 she was enabled by a grant from the Buitenzorg Fund to make a tour to Java. Her main interest was soil Fungi, but besides she intended to get acquainted with the tropical flora.¹ In May 1916 she was appointed Assistant at the Research Station of the Government Cinchona Plantation at Tjinjiroean; in 1917 she continued research work at Medan in the Tobacco Experiment Station; since June at the Institute for Plant Diseases, Buitenzorg. Later she married Mr Feenstra, and lived at Amsterdam.
	Collecting localities: 1915-16. Sumatra East Coast: Medan (July 21, 1915), making several excursions to different plantations, Sibolangit (Bot. Garden), and the Batak Lands; Aug. 18 leaving for W. Java, staying at Buitenzorg, making excursions to plantations; Centr. Java: Diëng Plateau (Nov. 19-22); Tjilatjap, Kinderzee and Noesa Kambangan (Dec. 18); W. Java: Tjibodas and G. Gedeh (Dec. 21-Jan. 2, 1916); G. Tangkoeban Prahoe (Jan. 23); Kawah Kamodjan (27), G. Papandajan (29); E. Java: Pasoeroean, mangrove forest (Loeroes); Banjoewangi, crossing Idjen Plateau to Pantjoer, Djemher; from Probolinggo to G. Tengger: Soekapoera, Zandzee and G. Bromo, Tosari.-1917. Sumatra East Coast: excursion to G. Sibajak and G. Sinaboeng (May); from Harengaul (May 16) to Toba Lake, Samosir, Balige, and via Siborong-borong to Sibolga (Tapanoeli), Fort de Kock, and Padang (Sumatra West Coast); back in Java, Batavia (June 6).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: small collection from G. Papandajan (W. Java). She occasionally brought plants for identification to the experiment stations visited. Some might have been preserved.
	literature: (1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 41.