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Schneider, Capt.

 

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

 

career:

Probably O. Schneider, about 1890 captain of the ‘Ysabel’, and in 1891 quitting the German New Guinea Company. He made many tours by boat along the coast of former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland.

 

collections:

Marine Algae, from Hatzfeldhafen, NE. New Guinea.1 The collection was apparently made about 1890/91; its location is not known. He evidently collected in Samoa in 1892. No phanerogam collections known to us.

 

literature:

(1) cf. F. Heydrich in Ber. D. B.G. 10, 1892, p. 458-485; and O.C. Schmidt in Hedwigia 68, 1928, p. 19-86.