SunierALJ

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Sunier, Armand Louis Jean

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

Born: 1886, Rotterdam, Holland.

career:

Zoologist, educated at Leiden and Groningen universities, taking his Ph.Dr’s degree at Groningen in 1911. From 1911-23 on the staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Batavia,¹ since 1914 Head of that institution; in 1923 appointed Custodian of the Natural History Museum at Leiden; since 1927 Director of ‘Artis’ (zoological garden) at Amsterdam.

collections:

Till the present only one record of him having collected plants came to our knowledge (cf. Danser in Bull. Jard, Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 8, 1926/27, p. 223). The cited plant from Sitoegoenoeng (W. Java) (coll. June 6, 1916), is in Herb. Bog. [BO].

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Contribution to the knowledge of the natural history of the marine fishponds of Batavia’ (Treubia 2, 1920/21, p. 159 seq.).

biographical data:

Wie is dat? 1935, p. 366.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Sunier, Armand Louis Jean
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1886, Rotterdam, Holland.
	career: Zoologist, educated at Leiden and Groningen universities, taking his Ph.Dr’s degree at Groningen in 1911. From 1911-23 on the staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Batavia,¹ since 1914 Head of that institution; in 1923 appointed Custodian of the Natural History Museum at Leiden; since 1927 Director of ‘Artis’ (zoological garden) at Amsterdam.
	collections: Till the present only one record of him having collected plants came to our knowledge (cf. Danser in Bull. Jard, Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 8, 1926/27, p. 223). The cited plant from Sitoegoenoeng (W. Java) (coll. June 6, 1916), is in Herb. Bog. [BO].
	literature: (1) Author of ‘Contribution to the knowledge of the natural history of the marine fishponds of Batavia’ (Treubia 2, 1920/21, p. 159 seq.).
	biographical data: Wie is dat? 1935, p. 366.