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Biographical data

 

Dansereau, Pierre

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

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

 

Born: 1911, Montreal, Prov. of Quebec, Canada.

 

career:

Botanist who took his B.A. and B.Sc.Agr. degree in the University of Montreal; in 1930 D.Sc. at Geneva. From 1939-41 Assistant-Director of Technical Services, Montreal Botanical Garden; from 1942-50 Director of the ‘Service de Biogéographie’ at the University of Montreal, and Associate Professor of Biology at the same; from 1950-55 Assistant-Professor and Associate Professor of Botany, University of Michigan; in summer 1955 appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Montreal. He was a delegate to the Pan-Pacific Congress held in the Philippines in 1953. From 1961-66 Ass. Director New York Botanic Garden, and adj. Professor of Botany Columbia 1961- ; Sr Curator of Ecology 1966- ; Thomas Alva Edison visiting scholar at Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1967-68; at present back in Canada, at the ‘Institut d’Urbanisme, Université de Montreal.’

 

Collecting localities:

1953. Philippines, Luzon:1 arrival at Manila (Nov. 14); flying to Baguio, N. Luzon, and trip to Baguio; environs of Baguio (22), Zigzag View, Bued River, Trinidad; return to Manila by car (23); excursion to Los Baños and vicinity (26) and back to Manila; by car to Baguio (29), stops at San Miguel, Tarlac, Kennon valley; to Bontoc (30), collecting along the road; excursion to Mt Polis (Dec. 1); back to Baguio (2); foot of Mt Santo-Tomas and returning to Manila (3); leaving (5) by aeroplane for the U.S.A.

 

collections:

Herb. Michigan [MICH]: some 250 Philippine plants; dupl. will be presented to Herb. Montreal [MT]. Numbers recorded in a special system, running e.g. in 10 figures, indicating the number of the plant, the date and the plot or locality for which he made an inventory and ecological notes.

 

literature:

(1) P. Dansereau: ‘Philippine Journal’ 1-111 (Asa Gray Bull. 2, 1953 (1954), p. 323-330, 419-438; ibid. 3, 1955, p. 97-126).

 

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