Career

Collections

 

Wind Hzn, Rutgert

 

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

 

Born: 1893, Genemuiden, O., Holland.

 

career:

Forest Officer, joined the D.E. Indian Forest Service in 1917; stationed in Java, in teak districts and elsewhere. In 1925 he took his Dr’s degree at Wageningen. In 1938 he was appointed Inspector; retired in 1946.

 

collections:

He collected plants in teak forests on behalf of Beumée; numbered in the latter’s series in 1922-23; in Herb. Bog. [BO]. [N.B. of R. Wind it is also said that he collected in Beumée's series, one statement is incorrect.]