Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

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

career:

An Assistant Curator in the Gardens Department Straits Settlements, 1910-17; he later became a planter. He is the author of ‘Index of plants, Botanic Garden, Singapore’ (1912). After return in Britain he became a private gardener.

Collecting localities:

1910-17. Malay Peninsula: Taiping Hills, Perak (1911) etc.-1912. NW. Borneo, Sarawak (at all events in Aug.): visiting Mt Poi and probably ascending Mt Pensaung.¹

collections:

Small collections. In Herb. Kew [K]: plants from the Malay Peninsula (pres. 1912); Herb. Sing. [SING]. He numbered in the field; the specimens have been named and the duplicates distributed in the last 12 years, but no list has been published (Corner in litt.).

literature:

(1) Ridley in Kew Bull. 1933, p. 490 describes Microcos reticulata from Mt Pensaung, collected by Anderson (without mentioning initials).

biographical data:

Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlements 4, 1927, nos 4-5.