Career

Collections

Literature

 

Leeuwen, Willem van

 

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

 

Born: 1912, Utrecht, Holland.

 

career:

Educated at the Agricultural College, Wageningen; on the staff of the Soil Science Institute at Buitenzorg (Java), 1939-41; subsequently employed on a Cinchona Estate in Priangan Residency. At present on the Managing-board of the Koch Lands (Priangan Res.).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: small collection made in ‘Het Stervende Land’ (poor eroded country),1 near the Tjiloetoeng etc., W of G. Tjareme, Cheribon Res., W. Java, in about 1940.

 

literature:

(1) W. v. Leeuwen: ‘Aanteekeningen over erosie’ (in Versl. 28ste Verg Proefstat. Pers., Maart 1941).