Career

 

Schilling, J.A.

 

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

 

career:

Governor of Ambon, who sent a hundred of living plants from there to the Hortus Medicus on Molenvliet at Batavia, which garden was founded in about 1790 by Frederik Schouwman, Merchant and 1st Administrator of the Medicinal Shop (cf. Verb. Bat. Gen. K. & W. 5, 1790, p. (20) and l.c. 6, 1792, p. (19)).