VisserWA

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Visser, Willem Anthony

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

Born: 1913, Zoeterwoude, Z.H., Holland.

career:

Passed his youth with his parents in Java; geologist, educated at Leiden University (Ph.Dr 1937); in 1937 he entered the employ of the B.P.M. (Batavian Oil Co.). He collected plants during secondary-school years.

Collecting localities:

1927-31. W.Java: Batavia, G. Gedeh-Pangrango, Tjilintjing (March 16 and 31, 1929), Bantam, G. Tjibodas (Tjampea), Lembang, Pengalengan,¹ G. Papandajan, etc.

collections:

Herb. Leiden [L]: 141 phanerogams and Fungi from Switzerland and Java (pres. 1937/38). The cited¹ Java plants are numbered A 23 101 and A 23102. These high numbers are the result of a decimal system whereby the units refer to the species, the tens to the genus, the hundreds to the family, etc.

literature:

(1) cf. Bakuizen v.d. Brink f. in Rec. Trav. Bot. néerl. 40, 1943, p. 67, 77.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Visser, Willem Anthony
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1913, Zoeterwoude, Z.H., Holland.
	career: Passed his youth with his parents in Java; geologist, educated at Leiden University (Ph.Dr 1937); in 1937 he entered the employ of the B.P.M. (Batavian Oil Co.). He collected plants during secondary-school years.
	Collecting localities: 1927-31. W.Java: Batavia, G. Gedeh-Pangrango, Tjilintjing (March 16 and 31, 1929), Bantam, G. Tjibodas (Tjampea), Lembang, Pengalengan,¹ G. Papandajan, etc.
	collections: Herb. Leiden [L]: 141 phanerogams and Fungi from Switzerland and Java (pres. 1937/38). The cited¹ Java plants are numbered A 23 101 and A 23102. These high numbers are the result of a decimal system whereby the units refer to the species, the tens to the genus, the hundreds to the family, etc.
	literature: (1) cf. Bakuizen v.d. Brink f. in Rec. Trav. Bot. néerl. 40, 1943, p. 67, 77.