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Hoogstraal, Harry

 

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

 

Born: 1917, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.

 

career:

Zoologist, educated in the universities of Chicago, Illinois, and London.

Leader of the Chicago-Philippine Expedition in 1946-471, during which Edaño (see there) did most of the botanical collecting (cf. also Alcasid, Castro, Celestino). At present Head of the Department of Medical Zoology of a U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo, Egypt.

 

collections:

A few numbers in Luzon and Mindanao; numbered in the P.N.H. series (cf. sub Philippine National Herbarium) [PNH]; also in Herb. Chicago [F]. In 1939-41 he collected in Mexico.

 

literature:

(1). H. Hoogstraal: ‘Philippine Zoological Expedition 1946-1947. Narrative and Itinerary’ (Fieldiana: Zool. 33, no 1, 1951, 84 pp., pl. 1-7, textfig. 1-7).