Haan, de |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) |
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Probably identical with Jacob van Breda de Haan (1866, Haarlem, N.H., Holland; 1917, Soerabaja, Java), botanist who took his Ph.Dr’s degree in 1891 at Leiden; Chief of the Laboratory for Deli tobacco of the Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, 1894-1900; in 1900, besides, Chief of the division Botanical Laboratories; in 1905 appointed Inspector of Native Agriculture. Until 1905 he was stationed for some longer periods in Deli, Sumatra East Coast. |
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Collected Pseuderanthemum metallicum Hall.f. in Deli, Sumatra East Coast;1 in Hort. Bog., with some Begonias from there. |
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(1) cf. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 15, 1898, p. 27. |
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Portr. of J. van Breda de Haan in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, pl. 2. |