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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1878, Roermond, L., Holland. Died: 1972, Wassenaar, ZH., Holland.

career:

Was educated at the Technical College at Delft; Chief Assistant of Microbiology, 1901-07; in 1907 appointed Professor of Technical Botany. In 1911 he came to Java as a delegate of the Dutch Government to the Fibre Congress, but spent some time at Buitenzorg for research work of a purely botanical nature in August.¹

collections:

A collection of economic plants and their products (coll. 1911) in Techn. Univ. Coll. Delft.

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 36.

biographical data:

Wie is dat? ed. 1-4; Persoonlijkheden in Nederland, 1938, + portr.; Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 49, 1939, p. 444; l.c. 50, 1940, p. 193; l.c. 51, 1941, p. 355.

photo gallery:

1907	25 year jubilee as professor NRC 30 May 1927	60 year anniversary Telegraaf 16 Aug. 1938		A.D.J. Meeuse, Acta Bot. Neerl. 18 (1969) 8	Signature