BolsterFH

Career

Collections

Biographical data

Bolster, Frederik H.

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

Born: 1876, Oppenheim, N.Y., U.S.A.

career:

A teacher, employed at the Bureau of Education at Manila, who beside his teaching work found time to collect a lot of interesting plants in Mindanao etc.

Polypodium bolsteri Copel. and other plants were named after him.

collections:

Some of the collecting numbers referred to in Merrill, Enum. Philip. Fl. Pl., exceed 400; 12 dupl. in U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US].

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collections Biographical data
	Bolster, Frederik H.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1876, Oppenheim, N.Y., U.S.A.
	career: A teacher, employed at the Bureau of Education at Manila, who beside his teaching work found time to collect a lot of interesting plants in Mindanao etc. Polypodium bolsteri Copel. and other plants were named after him.
	collections: Some of the collecting numbers referred to in Merrill, Enum. Philip. Fl. Pl., exceed 400; 12 dupl. in U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US].
	biographical data: Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.