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Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Meyer, Robert

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

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

Born: 1881, St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

career:

For a short time horticulturist and plant collector of the Bureau of Forestry at Manila, after which he was dismissed.

Alangium meyeri Merr. was named after him (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936); other plants too.

Collecting localities:

Philippines. Luzon: Mt Mariveles (Nov. 22, 1904); Lamao Forest Reserve (Dec. 1904-June 1905).¹

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH], numbered in the F(or) B(ur). (see there) series, 435 nos from Lamao Forest Reserve; dupl. in Herb. Berl. [B]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 414 Philippine plants; Herb. Paris [P].

literature:

(1) cf. Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, 1906, Suppl. 3.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Meyer, Robert
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1881, St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
	career: For a short time horticulturist and plant collector of the Bureau of Forestry at Manila, after which he was dismissed. Alangium meyeri Merr. was named after him (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936); other plants too.
	Collecting localities: Philippines. Luzon: Mt Mariveles (Nov. 22, 1904); Lamao Forest Reserve (Dec. 1904-June 1905).¹
	collections: Herb. Manila [PNH], numbered in the F(or) B(ur). (see there) series, 435 nos from Lamao Forest Reserve; dupl. in Herb. Berl. [B]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 414 Philippine plants; Herb. Paris [P].
	literature: (1) cf. Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, 1906, Suppl. 3.