Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

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

Born: 1862, Soerakarta, Java. Died: 1937, The Hague, Holland.

career:

Was educated in Holland and came back to the D.E.I. in 1887, in the employ of the Civil Service; finally Resident of Ternate (1912-15); subsequently retired.

Author of a paper on the Batang-Hari Districts in Sumatra.¹

He is commemorated in the genus Palmervandenbroekia Gibbs, as he was of great assistance to the authoress, when she was exploring in New Guinea.

Collecting localities:

1912. N. Sumatra: Karobatak Lands.-1915. Dutch North New Guinea: Tanah Merah Bay and W. slope Cyclop Mts. -1916. Moluccas: Batjan.

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: some duplicates, viz nos 12-14 from Sumatra and nos 15-17 from Batjan (pres. by the Kol. Inst. Amsterdam).

Hort. Bog.: New Guinea plants.

literature:

(1) In Tijdschr. Ind. Taal-, Land- en Volkenk. 49, 1907, p. 206-238.

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.