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Delmaar, Carel Nicolaas Johan

 

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

 

Born: 1885, Bandaneira, Moluccas.

 

career:

Head Overseer in the employ of the D.E. Indian Forest Service; since Aug. 1917 stationed at Bandjermasin in SE. Borneo,1 in Nov. 1925 transferred to Fort de Kock in Sumatra West Coast, Oct. 1927 to Balige in Tapanoeli (W. Sumatra) and in March 1932 to Padangsidimpoean in the same residency. He retired in 1933.

 

Collecting localities:

SE. Borneo. Since 1917 in the environs of Bandjermasin, e.g. at Loepak, Koeala Kapoeas, Tanah Boemboe, etc.-W. Sumatra: Tapanoeli, Dairi Lands (1930).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: dupl. of the F.R.I.; Herb. For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg [BZF]: many numbers from SE. Borneo (coll. 1917-25), from Tapanoeli (1930) 3 nos.

In Hort. Bog.: Borneo orchids (pres. 1921).

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Lijst van de ultimo 1924 in de dienstkring Zuider- en Oosterafd. van Borneo aangetroffen boomsoorten’ (with L. van Meurs, cf. abstract in Tectona 18, 1925, p. 890, 898, 899); and ‘Eenige mededeelingen omtrent de in de Res. Zuider- en Oosterafd. van Borneo voorkomende katiausoorten’ (Tectona 19, 1926, p. 142-150).

Typed reports on a trip to subdiv. Pleihari (Nov. 16-Dec. 15, 1924) and to Sg. Hiang (tributary of the Kapoeas) in 1925, in For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg.