Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Vooren, Johannes Adrianus

 

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

 

Born: 1905, Utrecht, Holland.

 

career:

Schoolmaster in the employ of the D.E. Indian Government; in 1933 stationed at Buitenzorg, in 1935 transferred to Pemalang (Centr. Java), and subsequently at Batavia to follow a course of natural history.

 

Collecting localities:

1939-41. W. Java: Batavia, Buitenzorg, Mr Cornelis, Sindanglaja.

 

collections:

c. 400 nos in private herbarium, a few duplicates in Herb. Bog. [BO], all collected from 1939 onwards.

As early as 1933 and 1935 he sent plants, respectively from Buitenzorg and Pemalang, for identification to the Buitenzorg Herbarium; the 1st lot was very incomplete, the 2nd mainly consisted of cultivated plants; of both no material in the Buitenzorg Herbarium.