Siboga expedition

The Siboga expedition was a Dutch zoological and hydrographic expedition to Indonesia from March 1899 to February 1900.

Siboga expedition
Leader	Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
Participants	Max Carl Wilhelm Weber Anna Weber-van Bosse Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz Jan Versluys Jozef Willem Huijsmans
Route

Expedition route of the Siboga 1899/1900 (coloured) and proposed route by Weber from 1898 (black)

Survey during the Siboga expedition. (Photo from the collection of Tropenmuseum.)

The leader of the expedition was Max Carl Wilhelm Weber. Other members of the crew were his wife Anna Weber-van Bosse, the zoologist and first assistant Jan Versluys, the zoologist and second assistant Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz, the physician A. Schmidt, and the artist Jozef Willem Huysmans. Captain Gustaaf Frederik Tydeman was responsible for making hydrographic measurements.

Gallery

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  Siboga expedition group portrait
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  Siboga expedition laboratory
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  Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (left) and Gustaaf Frederik Tydeman in Buru
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  Anna Weber-van Bosse and natives
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  Inhabitants of the eastern coast of the Aru Islands, photographed late 1899.

See also

• Rudolph Bergh
• Ethel Sarel Gepp
• Paul Mayer (zoologist)
• Mattheus Marinus Schepman
• Anna Weber-van Bosse
• Weber Deep

Further reading

• (November 1900) "The Dutch "Siboga" Expedition to the Malay Archipelago". The Geographical Journal 16(5): 549–552. JSTOR
• (November 1904) "Review: Research in the Malay Archipelago. Reviewed work(s): Siboga-Expeditie. Uitkomsten op zoologisch, botanisch, oceanographisch en geologisch Gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 aan boord H. M. S. Siboga". The Geographical Journal 24(5): 578–580. JSTOR
• (1904) The Corallinaceae of the Siboga - expedition. Anna Weber-Van Bosse.

External links

• science.uva.nl archive
• works related to Siboga Expedition at Internet Archive