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FRlESIA • Bind X . Hefte 4-5 . 1974<br />

NOTITSER<br />

DR. M. A. DONK<br />

Photo 1972<br />

14 August 1908 - 2 September 1972.<br />

By FINN-EGIL ECKBLAD<br />

When Dr. MARINUS ANTON DONK died on 2nd September 1972 it was a<br />

great loss to the world of mycology.<br />

He was born on 14th August 1908 at Situbondo, Java, of Dutch parents.<br />

He went to a secondary school at The Hague, studied biology at the Uni­<br />

versity of Utrecht from 1927 and received his doctor's degree in 1933 on<br />

the thesis "Revision der niederHindischen Homobasidiomycetae-Aphyllo­<br />

phoraceae. II".<br />

DONK became interested in fungi already as a schoolboy and joined the<br />

Dutch Mycological Society in 1925. He published his first mycological<br />

paper in 1928 not yet 20 years old. He was in close contact with the<br />

French mycologist H. BOURDOT.<br />

After having finished his studies he went back to the Dutch East<br />

Indies and was a teacher at Surabaya from 1934 to 1940, then he was<br />

appointed Mycologist at Herbarium of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg<br />

(now Herbarium Bogoriense) in 1941. From 1942 to 1945 he was in Japa­<br />

nese internment-camps. All three manuscript copies of a textbook on myco­<br />

logy were lost during the war which made him seriously considering<br />

dropping mycology.<br />

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