MeindersmaHW

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Meindersma, Harm Wigger

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

Born: 1894, Deventer, O., Holland.

career:

Forest Officer, in 1920 on the staff of the Forest Research Institute, Buitenzorg, and subsequently stationed elsewhere in Java, and for 2 years in Sumatra (Bengkalis, Nov. 1923-25). He retired in 1940.

He was especially interested in mangrove forests.¹

Collecting localities:

Centr. Java: Isl. of Noesa Kambangan and near Tjilatjap (Sept. 16-22, 1920); W. Java: Bantam (192 .); Centr. Java (1932).

Hort. Bog.: living plants from mangrove forest, Centr. Java (pres. 1922).

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: nos M.1-M.37 from Noesa Kambangan and Tjilatjap, and possibly some dupl. from other localities. Herb. For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg [BZF]: Ja. nos (partly former M. nos).

literature:

(1) H.W. Meindersma: ‘Eenige bijzonderheden over mangrove-bosschen’ (Trop. Nat. 12, 1923, p. 25-31, 39-46, 70-77, 10 fig.); typed report on the mangrove forests in N. Palembang (1922) in For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg; with J.H. Becking & L.G. den Berger: ‘Vloed- of mangrove-bosschen in Ned. Indië’ (Tectona 15, 1922, p. 561-611).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Meindersma, Harm Wigger
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1894, Deventer, O., Holland.
	career: Forest Officer, in 1920 on the staff of the Forest Research Institute, Buitenzorg, and subsequently stationed elsewhere in Java, and for 2 years in Sumatra (Bengkalis, Nov. 1923-25). He retired in 1940. He was especially interested in mangrove forests.¹
	Collecting localities: Centr. Java: Isl. of Noesa Kambangan and near Tjilatjap (Sept. 16-22, 1920); W. Java: Bantam (192 .); Centr. Java (1932). Hort. Bog.: living plants from mangrove forest, Centr. Java (pres. 1922).
	collections: Herb. Bog. [BO]: nos M.1-M.37 from Noesa Kambangan and Tjilatjap, and possibly some dupl. from other localities. Herb. For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg [BZF]: Ja. nos (partly former M. nos).
	literature: (1) H.W. Meindersma: ‘Eenige bijzonderheden over mangrove-bosschen’ (Trop. Nat. 12, 1923, p. 25-31, 39-46, 70-77, 10 fig.); typed report on the mangrove forests in N. Palembang (1922) in For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg; with J.H. Becking & L.G. den Berger: ‘Vloed- of mangrove-bosschen in Ned. Indië’ (Tectona 15, 1922, p. 561-611).