GeskerHvan

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Gesker, Herman van

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

Died: 1858.

career:

Horticulturist, Student-Gardener in the University Botanic Garden at Amsterdam; probably about 1840 already a resident in W. Java ( ? Assistant on Pondok Gedeh Estate); in 1847 appointed Assistant Curator in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, at least in 1848 stationed at Tjipanas; he was dismissed in 1849, as he was imprisoned on account of shooting an Indonesian.¹ After his release in July 1854 he was assisted by Teijsmann in starting a floricultural garden at Batavia.

Collecting localities:

About 1840-49. W. Java: G. Salak, G. Gedeh-Pangrango, Pondok Gedeh, Megamendoeng, Tjibogo; Centr. Java: Tjilatjap, Noesa Kambangan (S of Java); E. Java: Soerabaja.

collections:

Herb. Leiden [L]; principally ferns, lycopods and lichens, but other plants too. Partly described by various authors.²

Living plants of his in Hort. Amsterdam.³

literature:

(1) cf. ‘'s Lands Plantentuin to Buitenzorg 18 Mei 1817-18 Mei 1892’ (Batavia 1892) p. 23-24.
(2) in Miquel: ‘Flora Ned. Indë’ and ‘Plantae Junghuhnianae’; van den Bosch: ‘Hymenophyllaceae’ 1861; J. Valckenier Suringar: ‘Het geslacht Cyperus’ 1898.
Selaginella by Alston in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. séer. 3, vol. 13, 1935, p. 436 and 440.
(3) W.H. de Vriese: ‘Plantarum javanicarum minus cognitarum vel novarum, nuper in hortum botanicum amstelodamensem introductarum’ (Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. & Physiol. 11, 1844, p. 336-347).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Gesker, Herman van
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Died: 1858.
	career: Horticulturist, Student-Gardener in the University Botanic Garden at Amsterdam; probably about 1840 already a resident in W. Java ( ? Assistant on Pondok Gedeh Estate); in 1847 appointed Assistant Curator in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, at least in 1848 stationed at Tjipanas; he was dismissed in 1849, as he was imprisoned on account of shooting an Indonesian.¹ After his release in July 1854 he was assisted by Teijsmann in starting a floricultural garden at Batavia.
	Collecting localities: About 1840-49. W. Java: G. Salak, G. Gedeh-Pangrango, Pondok Gedeh, Megamendoeng, Tjibogo; Centr. Java: Tjilatjap, Noesa Kambangan (S of Java); E. Java: Soerabaja.
	collections: Herb. Leiden [L]; principally ferns, lycopods and lichens, but other plants too. Partly described by various authors.² Living plants of his in Hort. Amsterdam.³
	literature: (1) cf. ‘'s Lands Plantentuin to Buitenzorg 18 Mei 1817-18 Mei 1892’ (Batavia 1892) p. 23-24. (2) in Miquel: ‘Flora Ned. Indë’ and ‘Plantae Junghuhnianae’; van den Bosch: ‘Hymenophyllaceae’ 1861; J. Valckenier Suringar: ‘Het geslacht Cyperus’ 1898. Selaginella by Alston in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. séer. 3, vol. 13, 1935, p. 436 and 440. (3) W.H. de Vriese: ‘Plantarum javanicarum minus cognitarum vel novarum, nuper in hortum botanicum amstelodamensem introductarum’ (Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. & Physiol. 11, 1844, p. 336-347).