J. H. L. Waterhouse

  • Name

    John Henry Lawry Waterhouse

  • Dates

    26 Mar 1884 - 20 Aug 1942

  • Specialities

    Spermatophytes

  • Roles

    Collector, Determiner

  • Movement Details

    Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville (Solomon Islands group, Papua New Guinea), New Britain Island (Papua-N ew Guinea)

  • Notes

    Collector Notes: New Britain, Bougainville (1932): NY
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    author of books:

    A New Guinea language book (Blanche bay dialect) by J H L Waterhouse
    Language: English
    Publisher: Sydney, Australasian medical Publishing Company, Limited, 1939.
    Database: WorldCat
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    A Roviana phrase book
    by J H L Waterhouse
    Language: English
    Publisher: Sydney : Epworth, 1926.

    Olio. by J H L Waterhouse
    by J H L Waterhouse;
    Language: English
    Publisher: Malakuna, Rabaul : Methodist Mission. Print., 1933.



    A New Britain phrase book
    by J H L Waterhouse
    Language: English
    Publisher: Rabaul, Mission Press, 1920.


    100 short lessons on the life of Christ : being a translation into the dialect of Roviana, New Georgia (Zinama Roviana) of the Fijian booklet "Ai vola ni wilivola e nai tukutuku vinaka."
    by J H L Waterhouse; Methodist Church of New Zealand. Solomon Islands District.;
    Print book
    Language: Austronesian [Other]
    Publisher: Sydney : Epworth, 1926.

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    From http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/W/WaterhouseJHL.htm (consiulted 27 July 2015):

    Waterhouse, J.H.L.

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


    career:
    Of Cairnleith, Chatswood, N.S.W., Australia, worked in the South and Northwest Pacific from 1907 onwards, starting in Fiji. From about 1930-end 1932 he stayed in the Solomon Islands, mainly in Bougainville, but paying visits to Buka Isl. and adjacent islets, commissioned on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Empire Marketing Board, London; in Jan. 1933 appointed teacher at the native Nodup Administration School and the Police School at Rabaul, New Britain. He was evidently also engaged in linguistic work.2


    Collecting localities:
    1931-32. Solomon Islands.-1933-± 1935. Bismarck Archipelago: New Britain.



    collections:
    Herb. Forestry School Yale Univ. (New Haven) [Y]: c. 300 nos from Solomon Isls and New Britain. Herb. Kew [K]: plants from Bougainville and the Solomon Islands (pres. 1931/32), and from the Mandated Territory (pres. 1935), incl. New Britain plants (coll. Dec. 1934); partly dupl. in Herb. Arn. Arbor. [A], and N.Y. Bot. Gard. [NY] (c. 100 nos); Herb. Sydney [NSW]: 150 to 200 Solomon Islands plants; 400 wood specimens in the Yale Univ. collection [Y].1
    Mr Forman from Kew informed me that the numbers up to 850 are practically all from Bougainville; those above 850 are all from New Britain. This may hold for the material at Kew [K] (? material from 1932 and later possibly having been renumbered following on the number­ing of earlier collections), but the collection sold to Yale University [Y] (coll. 1932-35) was numbered 1-423, of which the numbers 208 onwards were collected in New Britain. In literature a no 345 is cited to have been collected in October 1930, so it is evident that several numbers will have been used twice, and for citation it will be wise to give both the Kew and Yale numbers. The plants were partly identified at Kew (special groups were sent to Berlin and are possibly lost), partly in the U.S.A. by Dr Merrill.


    literature:
    (1) M. Record: ‘A collection of woody plants from Melanesia’ (Trop. Woods 81, 1945, p. 9-45).
    (2) Most data derived from the correspondence present at the Yale Herbarium, kindly put at my disposal by the Curator Mr William L. Stern.
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    From: http://www.geni.com/people/John-Waterhouse/6000000007851162368 (c0nsulted 27 July 2015)


    John Henry Lawry Waterhouse
    Birthdate: March 26, 1884
    Birthplace: Auckland, New Zealand
    Death: Died August 20, 1942 in Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
    Immediate Family:
    Son of John Waterhouse and Hephzibah Waterhouse
    Husband of Dorothy Waterhouse
    Brother of Lionel Lawry Waterhouse; Walter Waterhouse; Olive Lawry Oakley; Heppy Waterhouse and Jabez Leonard Lawry Waterhouse
    Half brother of Anna (Nance) Waterhouse
    Occupation: Publlic Servant/ Teacher

  • Collections

    Botanical Collections