Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Hutchinson, Wallace Irving

 

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

 

Born: 1881, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

 

career:

Forest Officer from Yale University, New Haven (U.S.A.); in the first decennary of the 20th century in the employ of the Bureau of Forestry, Manila; at present in the Forest Service of the U.S.A.

Hydnocarpus hutchinsonii Merr. and other Philippine plants were named after him.

 

Collecting localities:

Philippines, viz in Mindanao: Mt Malindang (May 1906, with Mearns); Mindoro: Mt Halcon (Nov. 1906, with Mearns and E.D. Merrill) (see those); Mindanao: Agusan Valley, E. side between Tagabaca and Gibong rivers (May 1907).

 

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH], numbered in the For. Bur. (F.B.) series (see there). Herb. Sing. [SING]: 840 dupl. of the Philippines; also dupl. in Herb. Berl. [B]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 100 P.I. pl. + 200 coll. with Mearns and Whitford; Herb. Leiden [L]; Herb. Edinburgh [E].