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Huguenin, Otto Fredrik Ulrich Jacobus

 

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

 

Born: 1827, Voorburg, Z.H., Holland. Died: Aug. 6, 1871, Sumatra West Coast.

 

career:

Mining engineer, educated at Delft; joined the D.E.I. Government service in 1850, and was subsequently placed at the disposal of C. de Groot; in 1859 Head of the Mining Service of the D.E.I.; he resigned in 1860, and got a license to exercise the profession of surveyor in 1863; in 1867 he joined the Mining Service again and was stationed in Sumatra West Coast.

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: some ferns from Banka and Billiton, numbered in the H.B. series.1

 

literature:

(1) cf. J. Amann (= S. Kurz): ‘Opsomming der vaatkryptogamen van her eiland Banka’ (Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 23, 1861, p. 399-412).