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Coolidge, Harold Jefferson

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

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

Born: 1904, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

career:

Zoologist, educated at Arizona, and Harvard (Cambridge), was attached to several expeditions, viz to Africa (1926-27), Indo-China (1928-29), and as Leader to the Asiatic Primate Expedition (1937). During the latter expedition plants were collected by J.A. Griswold (see there); Coolidge did not climb Mt Kinabalu.

A member of the Pacific Science Council, representing the U.S. Nat. Academy of Sciences, for many years. After his retirement by the end of 1971 he was awarded a Honorary Life Fellowship.

collections:

Herb. Arn. Arbor. [A]: Borneo and Siam plants collected by Coolidge & Griswold (pres. 1937-38) (cf. Journ. Arn. Arbor. 19, 1938, p. 452). The Borneo plants were collected by Griswold only.

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci. 1938.

	Career Collections Biographical data
	Coolidge, Harold Jefferson
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1904, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
	career: Zoologist, educated at Arizona, and Harvard (Cambridge), was attached to several expeditions, viz to Africa (1926-27), Indo-China (1928-29), and as Leader to the Asiatic Primate Expedition (1937). During the latter expedition plants were collected by J.A. Griswold (see there); Coolidge did not climb Mt Kinabalu. A member of the Pacific Science Council, representing the U.S. Nat. Academy of Sciences, for many years. After his retirement by the end of 1971 he was awarded a Honorary Life Fellowship.
	collections: Herb. Arn. Arbor. [A]: Borneo and Siam plants collected by Coolidge & Griswold (pres. 1937-38) (cf. Journ. Arn. Arbor. 19, 1938, p. 452). The Borneo plants were collected by Griswold only.
	biographical data: Amer. Men of Sci. 1938.