Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Ferman, Jan Hendrik Gerard

 

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

 

Born: 1911, Zeist, U., Holland.

Died: about Sept. 1944, drowned during a Japanese transport of P.O.W.’s, W of Padang, Sumatra.

 

career:

Botanist, educated at Utrecht University (Ph. Dr 1938). Since 1938 Group-Adviser of the Experiment Station for the Java Sugar Industry (Pasoeroean), stationed at Pasoeroean, and from 1939-42 at Cheribon.

 

Collecting localities:

W. Java: W. slope of G. Tjeremai, 600 m alt. (Apr. 7, 1939); Telaga Patengan (June 1940); E. slope G. Rompang, Kromong Mts (Apr. 20, 1941); E. slope G. Tjeremai (May 1941), Telaga Patengan (June 1941).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: some tens of plants.