Career

Collections

Biographical data

 

Brero, J. van

 

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

 

Born: 1864. Died: 1940, Bandoeng, Java.

 

career:

Of the Nursery ‘Tjibeganti’ Bandoeng, W. Java. He was a post office official who was pensioned off in 1919.

 

collections:

Sent living orchids (e.g. Calanthe turneri Rchb. originating from Banjoemas, Bandjar Patoman) to Hort. Bog. in the years 1927-28.

 

biographical data:

Orchidee 9, 1940, p. 41-42 w. portr.; and l.c. 10, 1941, p. 38.