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Kreke, Marie C.A. van der

 

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

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

 

Born: 1886, Alpen a/d Rijn, Holland

 

career:

Passed the pharmaceutical examination at Amsterdam in 1912; from 1913-17 Chemical Assistant at Amsterdam University, and subsequently attached to the chemical factory at Naarden; 1920-24 appointed in the Chemical division of the Sugar Experiment Station at Semarang (Centr. Java), and in 1924 ditto at Pasoeroean (E. Java); 1925-32 Chief of the Laboratory for Analysis of the Chemical division; after return to Holland she settled as a pharmacist at Leerdam. In 1946 she gave up her job and moved to Huis ter Heide (near Zeist).

 

collections:

Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: 2 nos from G. Lawoe in E. Java (1927).