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. He received his university education in

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. He earned his doctorate in 1952 with a review of the genus

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under Professor van Steenis and in that year he joined the Australian

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in the Division of Land Research in Canberra as a botanist initially focusing on the then Australian "dependency" of Papua New Guinea. Subsequently, his field work included expeditions to remote Australian territories such as Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, and to other Commonwealth countries including Sri Lanka and Malaysia. He transferred from CSIRO to the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University, but was forced to "retire" after contracting

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. Despite this, he continued to work wherever he could find appropriate facilities, and was fortunate to obtain a visiting fellowship at the Laboratoire de Phanérogamie within the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris before he turned 65, where he continued to work until shortly before his death. His last field trip was to New Caledonia about 6 months before his death. Throughout his career, he made regular visits and contributed specimens to collaborating herbaria or botanic gardens around the world including Sydney (over 740 specimens), Leiden and Kew Gardens, amongst many others.

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Olearia ''Olearia'', most commonly known as daisy-bush, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae, the largest of the flowering plant families in the world. Olearia are found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus i ...

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Weinmannia ''Weinmannia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Cunoniaceae. It contains 90 species, which range from Mexico through Central and South America including the Caribbean, and to the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius and Réunion) in the weste ...

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Potentilla ''Potentilla'' is a genus containing over 500 species of Annual plant, annual, Biennial plant, biennial and Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant, herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family (biology), family, Rosaceae. Potentillas m ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoogland, Ruurd Dirk 1922 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists 20th-century Dutch explorers Botanists with author abbreviations Explorers of New Guinea Leiden University alumni People from Leeuwarden University of Groningen alumni Dutch emigrants to Australia