Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Karsten, Barta Jacoba

 

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

 

Born: 1879, Haarlem, N.H., Holland.

 

career:

Chemist, educated at Amsterdam University; Dr’s degree in 1906 at Zürich, Switzerland; ex-Directress of a secondary Girl’s school at Groningen; living in Java from Nov. 1934-March 1938; later settled at the Hague.

 

Collecting localities:

1934-38. W. Java: Bandoeng, Dago, G. Goentoer (1937); Centr. Java: Diëng (July 1937); E. Java: possibly from Tosari (Tengger).

 

collections:

She presented (1937/38) 109 nos of phanerogams from Java to Herb. Leiden [L]. The specimens are not numbered, nor dated.