Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Hill, Dr Ronald David

 

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

 

Born: 1935, Wellington, New Zealand.

 

career:

Graduated M.A. from Victoria University of Wellington (1961); Drs. University of Singapore (1965 On the staff of the Geography Department, University of Singapore.

 

Collecting localities:

1969. Singapore. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, in Jungle Fall Valley; Singapore Botanic Gardens.-1970. Bt Timah Nat. Res. (mid-Feb.-mid-June);1 Botanic Gardens, Singapore 80-year old secondary forest, Johore-1971. Planning to collect in fresh-water swamp forest.

 

collections:

Up to 1971 > 370 specimens of tree species, exclusively in Herb. Sing. [SING], H numbers.

 

literature:

(1) R.D. Hill: ‘Soil moisture under forest, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore’ (Gard. Bull. Sing. 26, 1972, p. 85-93, 3 fig., 7 tabl.).