EwerW

Career

Collecting localities

Literature

Ewer, W(alter)

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

career:

B. Heyne¹ mentioned a Mr Ewer as Administrator for the Farms (branches of revenue arising from the retail sale of spirituous liquors, of palm wine, opium, licences for cockfighting, and gambling houses) at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen.

L.S.A.M. von Römer mentioned Walter Ewer, Governor of Bencoolen in 1805!²

Collecting localities:

Contributed plants from Sumatra (1802-03, 1808), and from the Moluccas (1809) to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta (cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814).

literature:

(1) Cf. ‘Tracts, historical and statistical, on India etc.’ 1814, p. 375.
(2) In Hist. Schetsen, Batavia 1921, p. 279.

	Career Collecting localities Literature
	Ewer, W(alter)
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	career: B. Heyne¹ mentioned a Mr Ewer as Administrator for the Farms (branches of revenue arising from the retail sale of spirituous liquors, of palm wine, opium, licences for cockfighting, and gambling houses) at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen. L.S.A.M. von Römer mentioned Walter Ewer, Governor of Bencoolen in 1805!²
	Collecting localities: Contributed plants from Sumatra (1802-03, 1808), and from the Moluccas (1809) to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta (cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814).
	literature: (1) Cf. ‘Tracts, historical and statistical, on India etc.’ 1814, p. 375. (2) In Hist. Schetsen, Batavia 1921, p. 279.