AltheerJJ

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Biographical data

Altheer, J.J.

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Died: 1863

career:

Appointed Pharmaceutical Chemist of the D.E.I. Army in 1852 and as such stationed in Banka in 1858; for some years after 1855, Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry at the Medical School, Batavia.

Author of many chemical papers in Nat. Tijdschr. N.I.

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: principally ferns;¹ also some Amaryllidaceae and an orchid from Banka, mentioned in Teysmann’s list of Banka plants;² the collection presented in 1860 to the Nat. Ver. N.I. at Batavia, was forwarded to Buitenzorg.³ Numbering > 42; some plants numbered in the H.B. series of the Buitenzorg Herbarium [BO].

literature:

(1) cf. J. Amann (= S. Kurz) in Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 23, 1861, p. 399-412.

(2) cf. Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 27, 1864, p.157-258.

(3) cf. l.c. 21, 1860, p. 435.

biographical data:

Tijdschr. v. N.I., N.S. 1, 1863, p. 244-245, w. bibliogr.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Altheer, J.J.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Died: 1863
	career: Appointed Pharmaceutical Chemist of the D.E.I. Army in 1852 and as such stationed in Banka in 1858; for some years after 1855, Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry at the Medical School, Batavia. Author of many chemical papers in Nat. Tijdschr. N.I.
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: principally ferns;¹ also some Amaryllidaceae and an orchid from Banka, mentioned in Teysmann’s list of Banka plants;² the collection presented in 1860 to the Nat. Ver. N.I. at Batavia, was forwarded to Buitenzorg.³ Numbering > 42; some plants numbered in the H.B. series of the Buitenzorg Herbarium [BO].
	literature: (1) cf. J. Amann (= S. Kurz) in Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 23, 1861, p. 399-412. (2) cf. Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 27, 1864, p.157-258. (3) cf. l.c. 21, 1860, p. 435.
	biographical data: Tijdschr. v. N.I., N.S. 1, 1863, p. 244-245, w. bibliogr.