Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

 

Zschokke, Theodore C.

 

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

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

 

Born: 1875, Wapello, Iowa, U.S.A.

 

career:

Educated at Yale University; Forest Officer of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry; from 1924-28 Forest Officer in Hawaii, and subsequently appointed at the University there.

Some plants were named after him.

 

Collecting localities:

Philippines. Vollected in Luzon as early as Sept. 1907. Luzon: Mt Pulog (Jan. 2-8, 1909),1 and possibly in other localities.

 

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH], numbered in the F.B. series (cf. sub Forestry Bureau); the Mt Pulog plants were elaborated by Merrill.1

 

literature:

(1) cf. Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 5, 1910, p. 287-401, pl. 1.

 

biographical data:

Am. Men of Sci. ed. 5.