- Collection Fritz Weber, recent beach sands
from Kai-Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia:
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Fritz Weber (1878-1959)
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of collections of F. Weber at NMB
- A collection of recent marine beach sands collected by Fritz
Weber from various places of the Kai
Islands archipelago (Moluccas), (between 5° to 6°
5' S / 131° 50' to 133° 15' E) during the early 1920ties.
They contain modern beach- and coral sands containing diverse
and exceptional tropical benthic foraminiferal assemblages. See
maps
archive of F. Weber with maps showing detailed sampling locations
from the Moluccas.
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- The samples were collected at the following places:
- Skat Island (between Kaimeer and Boer, north of Kur [nederl.:
Koer] ).
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- Tayandu Islands:
- Nusreen Island (nederl.: Noesreen), Tayandu Islands.
- Taam Island, south of Ohoitom, west coast of Tam Island (nederl.:
Taam), Tayandu Islands.
- Wawoekebaf (Woewoekabaw), southern tip of Tayandu.
- Taj (=small island at SW coast of Wahir island), Tayando
Islands.
- Tayandu Islands.
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- Kei Dullah Island:
- Kabaeoe, close to southern tip of Kei Dullah.
- Ohoitahit (Ohoitaheit [Ohoitei]), eastern coast of Kei Dullah
(nederl.: Kei-Doellah).
- Wanit (nederl.: Vanit), eastern coast of Kei Dullah.
- Pulau Kelwik (nederl.: Poeloe Kilwick), off west coast of
Kei Dullah.
- Naam, northern tip of Kei Dullah.
- Tandjong Serbat, northern tip of Kei Dullah.
- Dulalaut (=Doelah, Dullah Laut), Palau Duroa Island.
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- Smaller Kei Island:
- Oet (sample numbers RF66, RF78 [Oet east coast], RF 81 [Oet
west coast], RF 82).
- Noehoe Tan (RF83).
- Nai (RF 74, Nai south coast).
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- Additional material comes from Adadet, Elrwak, Lem, Mator
Janat, Mukus, Noeniai, Oebniwan, Ohoiwatjar (= ? Ohoiwait, Kei
Besar Island), and Reejanat (= ? Pulau Reejanat).
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- History:
- These samples were transferred in 2005 to the former collections
manager at the NMB, Mr. René Panchaud. No extra documentation
was delivered with the material. According to Hottinger (pers.
communication from 14 November, 2006) it was collected by Fritz
Weber, an early 20th century geologist from Basel and working
in Indonesia, and a close fried to Prof. August Tobler. Most
of the bags are labelled with a number and with a locality name
(in Dutch), from where it became clear that the materials have
been collected at various places in the Kai Islands.
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- Some of this material was used in the PhD thesis of Roger Lehmann (1961) (observations
on Marginopora and Amphisorus [Standort] ).
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- See also the collection of Bursch, J.G. (1947). Mikropaläontologische
Untersuchungen des Tertiärs von Gross Kei (Molukken). Schweizerische
Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 65:1-69, plates 1-5. (PhD
dissertation).
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- Curatorial reminder:
- Additional Weber material from the Kai Islands and F. Weber's
collection of beach-sands from Java were deposited along the
Indonesian materials of Lukas Hottinger (in the former raw material
cellar), and now is recombined with the Weber-collection mentioned
above.
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- More information about the recent beach sand collection of
Fritz Weber is deposited in the archive of the geological department of
the NMB, alongside to the correspondence of A. Tobler with
F. Weber. Of particular interest are two letters
from Weber to Tobler dated from 23 May and 12 September 1923,
where the material is mentioned, together with maps showing sampling
localities.
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- Another map showing the location of Skat island is deposited
in the geological archive under Schenker, M. (1953, [unpublished]
). Akten und Schliffprotokolle der Tenimber-Inseln, Molukken,
Sammlung Fr. Weber, 1923/24.
- Xerox copies of the letters and maps are now deposited alongside
the collection.
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- Fritz Weber used the following numbering key to some of his
samples (see card-file
catalogue to the collections of F. Weber, also in the geological
archive):
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- GK=Gross Kei
- KK=Klein Kei
- KD=Kei-Doelah
- WK=W-islands of KK
- T=Tajendo
- K=Koer
- TW=Tenimber W-islands
- L=Fordata and Larat
- J=Jamdena
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- Standort
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