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Harreveld-Lako, Cornelia Hermina van

 

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

 

Born: 1883, Wageningen, Gld, Holland. Died: c. Dec. 1945, murdered by extremists, Batavia, Java.

 

career:

Studied pharmacy at Utrecht University, and was for the following 6 years employed in various positions in Holland; Chemical Assistant at the Experiment Station for the Java Sugar Industry (Pasoeroean), 1913-15; Agrogeologist, besides Meteorologistat the same institution, 1915-27. When back in Holland she took her Dr’s degree at Amsterdam University in 1933; since 1934 settled at Batavia with her husband J. van Harreveld (see there).

 

Collecting localities:

E. Java: G. Tengger, probably several times, at least in 1913, in Apr. 1915 (dessa Ngepoeh, Bendo), and in 1926 (Nongkodjadjar, Balepandjang, Poespo).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: > 98 nos; Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: 4 nos (coll. 1926).