Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Enriquez, Colin Metcalfe (Dallas)

 

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

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

 

Born: 1884.

 

career:

Officer (Major) of the Burma Rifles, stationed at Taiping, Perak (Malay Peninsula), for a few years round 1925.1 Interested in insects, especially butterflies.

 

Collecting localities:

He visited Mt Kinabalu in Br. N. Borneo in 1925.2

 

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING]: some ferns3 and a small coll. of mosses from the Kinabalu. Probably no plants from the Malay Peninsula.

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Malaya, its people, flora and fauna’ (London 1928).

(2) C.M. Enriquez: ‘Kinabalu, the haunted Mountain of Borneo. An account of its ascent, people, flora and fauna’ (London 1927; abstract in Journ. Bot. 65, 1927, p. 235).

(3) cf. Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 7, 1934, p. 192.