BernardCJ

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Bernard, Charles Jean

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)
(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1876, Geneva, Switzerland. Died: 1967, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

career:

Studied natural history at Geneva (Ph. Dr 1902); Botanical Assistant at Geneva, 1897-1902, subsequently employed there, at Berlin and Leiden (Custodian of the Herbarium, 1903-04); in 1906 appointed Chief of the Botanical Laboratory (Treub Laboratory) at Buitenzorg (Java);¹ Director of the Tea Experiment Station (Buitenzorg), 1907-28; finally Director of the D.E.I. Department of Agriculture till June 1933; in the latter year returning to Europe.

He was active in several international fields, as Nature Preservation and the Red Cross.

Collecting localities:

1906-c. 1928. W. Java; he is the discoverer of the grass Iseilema argutum And., new to Java, near Haoergeulis pr. Cheribon.² Sumatra East Coast (Apr.-May 1913) (probably not collecting) and Sumatra West Coast: Padang Highlands, at Loeboek Sikaping (June) etc.;³ collecting along the Alas road (Atjeh) and on the Karo Plain (East Coast) in 1918; S. Sumatra: Lampong Districts (Oct. 1927).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: principally orchids and saprophytes from Java, some Sumatra plants; 33 glass containers with botanical material in spirit (pres. 1933 by the Tea Exp. Station). Bernard also employed native collectors, specially for tiny saprophytes.

literature:

(1) He is the author of many papers on Phalloideae, saprophytes, etc., in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit., and of: ‘Protococcacées et Desmidiées d’eau douce recoltées a Java’ (Batavia 1908).
(2) cf. van Steenis in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 63.
(3) Ch. Bernard: ‘Verslag van een reis naar Sumatra’s Oostkust en de Padangsche Bovenlanden ter bestudeering van de theecultuur’ (Meded. Proefstat. Thee 29, 1914, p. 1-95).

biographical data:

Bergcultures for March 1928 + bibliography, and in l.c. 7, 1933, p. 661-674; portr. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, pl. 2; Fl. Mal. Bull. no 22, 1968, p. 1515, 1518.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Bernard, Charles Jean
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1876, Geneva, Switzerland. Died: 1967, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
	career: Studied natural history at Geneva (Ph. Dr 1902); Botanical Assistant at Geneva, 1897-1902, subsequently employed there, at Berlin and Leiden (Custodian of the Herbarium, 1903-04); in 1906 appointed Chief of the Botanical Laboratory (Treub Laboratory) at Buitenzorg (Java);¹ Director of the Tea Experiment Station (Buitenzorg), 1907-28; finally Director of the D.E.I. Department of Agriculture till June 1933; in the latter year returning to Europe. He was active in several international fields, as Nature Preservation and the Red Cross.
	Collecting localities: 1906-c. 1928. W. Java; he is the discoverer of the grass Iseilema argutum And., new to Java, near Haoergeulis pr. Cheribon.² Sumatra East Coast (Apr.-May 1913) (probably not collecting) and Sumatra West Coast: Padang Highlands, at Loeboek Sikaping (June) etc.;³ collecting along the Alas road (Atjeh) and on the Karo Plain (East Coast) in 1918; S. Sumatra: Lampong Districts (Oct. 1927).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: principally orchids and saprophytes from Java, some Sumatra plants; 33 glass containers with botanical material in spirit (pres. 1933 by the Tea Exp. Station). Bernard also employed native collectors, specially for tiny saprophytes.
	literature: (1) He is the author of many papers on Phalloideae, saprophytes, etc., in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit., and of: ‘Protococcacées et Desmidiées d’eau douce recoltées a Java’ (Batavia 1908). (2) cf. van Steenis in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 63. (3) Ch. Bernard: ‘Verslag van een reis naar Sumatra’s Oostkust en de Padangsche Bovenlanden ter bestudeering van de theecultuur’ (Meded. Proefstat. Thee 29, 1914, p. 1-95).
	biographical data: Bergcultures for March 1928 + bibliography, and in l.c. 7, 1933, p. 661-674; portr. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, pl. 2; Fl. Mal. Bull. no 22, 1968, p. 1515, 1518.