RAMBLES IN KLOOF AND MOUNTAIN

Janse was at time Lecturer in Biology, Normal College, Pretoria.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Pictorial carton hard covers with the red cloth spine. Volume 1 & 2 complete. 128 & 97 pages. Printed by J. H. De Bussy, Pretoria & Johannesburg as well as Hollandsche Afrikaansce Uitgewers v/h Jacques Dusseau & Co.                                                                                                                                                              

Volume 1: Adventure in the Kloof, strange evolution, plant collecting, the chameleon, the terrarium, terrarium inhabitants.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Volume 2: Part 1 - Key to the families of South Africabn plants. Part 2 - Synopsis of the South African families, arranged according to the Natural Classification.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Dr Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse (19 April 1877 & 12 June 1970), was a pioneer of South African entomology who specialised in Lepidoptera. His multi-volumed work, The Moths of South Africa is recognized as a definitive text.                                                                                                                                                                                               

Janse was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1877. He migrated to South Africa in 1889 and taught as a missionary in schools in northern Transvaal Waterval (Nuwe Smitsdorp). He was interned at Pinetown during the Anglo- Boer War. He worked as a photographer in Pietersburg. He taught biology, geography, and human physiology at Normal College, Pretoria, from 1905 until his retirement in 1937. He was in charge of the Normal College Herbarium.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Initially, he worked under primitive conditions, collecting on foot or by donkey cart. He was widely respected as an authority on South African moths and was a botanist, collecting alongside Reino Leendertz. In 1921-1922, he visited Europe and worked in museums in London, Leiden and Berlin, comparing and identifying many hundreds of specimens he collected. In acknowledgement of his work, he was presented in London with the Joicey collection of Pyralidae, which he brought back with him to Pretoria.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

He lectured at Pretoria University College for many years and was made an honorary professor in Systematic Entomology there in 1923. In 1925, the University of South Africa awarded him a honoris causa degree as Doctor of Science. (wikipedia)