Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

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

Died: 62 years old on Apr. 29, 1897, Kuching, Sarawak.

career:

Anthropologist-ethnologist who made a voyage to the Malay Peninsula under the auspices of the Rudolf Virchow Institute and of the Kön. Mus. f. Völkerkunde.¹

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula. About 1892 he visited all parts of the Peninsula, collecting in S. Trengganu near the Kemaman River (1890).-He made trips in Sarawak, NW. Borneo too, evidently also in 1897.

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING]: useful plants of the wild Sakai tribes (pres. 1894). No botanical material from Borneo known to the present author.

His ethnological collections are preserved at Berlin and Leningrad.

literature:

(1) cf. Verh. Berl. Anthropol. Ges. 1892, p. 829-836 (exclusively dealing with ethnology, no dates and localities mentioned).

cf. also ‘Anthropologische Bemerkungen’ (Zeitschr. f. Ethnol. 29, 1897, p. 173); with R.J. Wilkinson: ‘Papers on Malay Subjects’ Suppl., 1910, ‘The aboriginal tribes’, p. 3-5.

Important data on plant poisons in ‘Materialien zur Kenntnis der wilden Stämme auf der Halbinsel Malâka’ (Veröff. Mus. Völkerk. Berl. vol. 2, Heft 3/4, 1892; and in l.c. 3, Heft 3/4, 1894).

biographical data:

Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. no 30, 1897, p. xxi; Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.