Career

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Biographical data

 

Bovien, Prosper Louis

 

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

Born: 1894, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

career:

Zoologist who took his Ph. Dr’s degree at Copenhagen in 1937; Group-Adviser of the Java Sugar Experiment Station (Pasoeroean) stationed at Djombang, 1920-24; he returned home and in 1928 was appointed Chief Zoologist, Phytopathological Institute of the State (Lijngby) and in 1936 in addition Lecturer in Zoology at the Copenhagen Roy. Agr. College.

 

collections:

Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: > 107 nos collected near sugar factories in the environs of Djombang, E. Java (Sept.-Oct. 1923); some dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L], and in Herb. Univ. Amsterdam [AMD]. Some nos collected with Kooper (see there).

 

biographical data:

Entomol. Meddel. 15, 1936, p. 313-314.