ask for info about Wibbe J.H.

[piet]

In 1999 the herbarium of the National Botanic Garden (BR) received a
donation of LV containing inter alia the collection of the Reverend John
Herman Wibbe (1848-1899). The Wibbe Herbarium contains not only Wibbe's
own collections, but also M. Bang, Plantae Bolivianae, Curtiss' North
American Plants, Palmer, Flora of Mexico, Pringle, Plantae Mexicanae,
Pringle, Flora of the Pacific Slope, Schlechter, collections from Cape
the Good Hope and many others.
We have no idea at all how this collection came to Belgium (Katholic
University of Leuven, former Carnoy Institute), and there is
no information available in LV. As it represents one of our larger
acquisitions of the last decade, we would like to find out at least some
about J.H. Wibbe and the history of his collections. We just had a look
to the review of TAXONOMIC BOTANY AND FLORISTICS IN NORTH AMERICA
NORTH OF MEXICO and could not trace Wibbe's name.

Is any one able to bring us on the right way to find some more
information about this subject.

Piet


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Piet Stoffelen
National Botanic Garden of Belgium
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