Charles Budd Robinson

Charles Budd Robinson, Jr. (October 26, 1871 – December 5, 1913) was a Canadian botanist and explorer. In 1913 he was on a long field trip in Indonesia (formerly called Amboina), collecting plant specimens as done by Georg Eberhard Rumphius more than 170 years before. The result was an exsiccata-like specimen series entitled C. B. Rogerson: Plantae Rumphianae Amboinenses.

Death Robinson never returned after leaving on a botanical expedition to the Maluku Islands on December 5, 1913. He was reported as missing on December 11, with the assistant resident of Amboina (now Ambon in Indonesia) writing about the nature of his disappearance. He concluded that Robinson had been murdered. The report states that Robinson had encountered a native boy who had climbed a coconut tree, startling the boy who was not used to seeing a "European". The boy hurried to his village whereupon the locals feared that Robinson intended to do them harm, possibly believing him to be a head-hunter. Six people from the village killed him and sank his body into the sea.