VermeulenP

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Vermeulen, Pieter

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1899, Limmen, N.H., Holland.

career:

Teacher who studied biology at Amsterdam University (1930-35); secondary school teacher at Doetichem and in Amsterdam; Ph.D. Amsterdam (1947), and subsequently Conservator at the Hugo de Vries Laboratory there. He was awarded the Buitenzorg Fund for 1955.
His main interest is in Apostasiaceae and Orchidaceae.

Collecting localities:¹

1956 (June 25-Dec. 31). Travelling by plane, visiting India: from Calcutta to Darjeeling and Sikkim to Changu on the Tibethan border; W. Java: Bogor (July 25-Oct. 3), Kebun Raya Indonesia, making excursions in the environs, e.g. to Muara Angké (N. coast) and Tjibodas; Oct. 4 leaving for Sydney, N.S.W., Australia; back at Bogor (Oct. 28); at Bandung and Lembang with Dr Kostermans; Nov. 8 to Jogjakarta (Centr. Java) as a guest of the Gadja Mada University; excursions to G. Lawu (11-18) from Tawangmangu; Bali; W. Java: Bogor (Nov. 25-Dec. 10), making a tour to the Wijnkoopsbaai; Dec. 11 leaving for W. Sumatra: Pajakumbuh as a guest of Dr W. Meijer, making excursions to Haraukloof, G. Sago, Manindjau Lake, and Aneikloof, in company of the latter; leaving Dec. 21 for Padang and by bus from Bukittinggi by way of Sibolga, Toba Lake, Prapat, to Medan (arriving 23); returning to Amsterdam by way of Djakarta.

collections:

About 200 nos from the Himalaya, 400 from Australia, c. 25 from Muara Angké; a collection from G. Lawu (will be sent from Jogja), and from W. Sumatra. The material will probably be presented to Herb. Amsterdam [AMD].

literature:

(1) P. Vermeulen: ‘Bezoek aan Plantentuinen’ (in Folia Civitatis 10, no 21, March 2, 1957)
‘Een botanische reis naar bet Verre Oosten’ (Vakbl. Biol. 38, 1958, p. 133-144).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Vermeulen, Pieter
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1899, Limmen, N.H., Holland.
	career: Teacher who studied biology at Amsterdam University (1930-35); secondary school teacher at Doetichem and in Amsterdam; Ph.D. Amsterdam (1947), and subsequently Conservator at the Hugo de Vries Laboratory there. He was awarded the Buitenzorg Fund for 1955. His main interest is in Apostasiaceae and Orchidaceae.
	Collecting localities:¹ 1956 (June 25-Dec. 31). Travelling by plane, visiting India: from Calcutta to Darjeeling and Sikkim to Changu on the Tibethan border; W. Java: Bogor (July 25-Oct. 3), Kebun Raya Indonesia, making excursions in the environs, e.g. to Muara Angké (N. coast) and Tjibodas; Oct. 4 leaving for Sydney, N.S.W., Australia; back at Bogor (Oct. 28); at Bandung and Lembang with Dr Kostermans; Nov. 8 to Jogjakarta (Centr. Java) as a guest of the Gadja Mada University; excursions to G. Lawu (11-18) from Tawangmangu; Bali; W. Java: Bogor (Nov. 25-Dec. 10), making a tour to the Wijnkoopsbaai; Dec. 11 leaving for W. Sumatra: Pajakumbuh as a guest of Dr W. Meijer, making excursions to Haraukloof, G. Sago, Manindjau Lake, and Aneikloof, in company of the latter; leaving Dec. 21 for Padang and by bus from Bukittinggi by way of Sibolga, Toba Lake, Prapat, to Medan (arriving 23); returning to Amsterdam by way of Djakarta.
	collections: About 200 nos from the Himalaya, 400 from Australia, c. 25 from Muara Angké; a collection from G. Lawu (will be sent from Jogja), and from W. Sumatra. The material will probably be presented to Herb. Amsterdam [AMD].
	literature: (1) P. Vermeulen: ‘Bezoek aan Plantentuinen’ (in Folia Civitatis 10, no 21, March 2, 1957) ‘Een botanische reis naar bet Verre Oosten’ (Vakbl. Biol. 38, 1958, p. 133-144).