ask for info about Wibbe J.H.

[Benny Bytebier]

Dear Piet,

For information on Wibbe you might try

Angela Todd
Hunt Insitute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
USA

Regards,

Benny Bytebier
Co-ordinator
Taita Hills Biodiversity Project
National Museums of Kenya
P.O. Box 40658
Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254 2 742445 (office)
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bytebier at africaonline.co.ke


----- Original Message -----
From: piet <piet at BR.FGOV.BE>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: ask for info about Wibbe J.H.


> 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
>
>
> --
>
> Piet Stoffelen
> National Botanic Garden of Belgium
> ----------------------------------
> Domein van Bouchout
> B-1860 Meise
> Belgium
> Phone: +32-2-269.39.05 ---------- Fax: +32-2-270.15.67
>