Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Schuitemaker, Jan Pieter

 

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

 

Born: 1894, Probolinggo, Java. Died.

 

career:

Since 1921 Forest Officer in the employ of the D.E. Indian Forest Service, successively stationed in Java, Bali (Singaradja, 1928), and W. Borneo (Pontianak, from 1929);1 since 1932 at Buitenzorg, from 1937-39 teacher at the School of Agriculture there; in 1939 transferred to Madioen (E. Java), and in 1941 appointed Director of the School of Forestry there; after World War II reappointed in Dec. 1947, stationed at Batavia; at present Director of the School of Forestry at Buitenzorg.

 

Collecting localities:

1929-32. W. Borneo. In March-Apr. 1931 the ‘mantri’ of the Herbarium, Mondi (see there), collected under his supervision in Borneo and the Karimata Islands, W of Borneo; near Pontianak (Sept. 1931, and in 1932).-1937. W. Java: Buitenzorg.

 

collections:

Herb. For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg (see there) [BZF]: bb. nos from Borneo and 3 Ja. nos from Buitenzorg. Herb. Bog. [BO]: duplicates from the F.R.I., and herbaceous plants with private numbers (Nepenthaceae and Loranthaceae collected in Febr. 1932); Herb. Leiden [L]: Borneo dupl. (1931).

 

literature:

(1) J.P. Schuitemaker: ‘Damaronderzoek in West-Borneo’ (Tectona 26, 1933, p. 230-266); ‘Het garoehout van West-Borneo’ (l.c. 26, 1933, p. 851-892); ‘Onderzoek naar de bekerfauna van eenige Nepenthaceae bij Mandor. I. Botanisch gedeelte’ (Trop. Nat. 23, 1934, p. 146-151); ‘Aanteekeningen betreffende bet Natuurmonument Mandor (W. Borneo)’ (Verkl. N.I. Ver. Natuurbesch. 1935, 1936, p. 124-129); cf. also a typed report on Kendawangan in W. Borneo (trip from Aug. 18-29, 1930), in Forest Research Institute.