Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Amerom, Willem Frederik Hendrik van

 

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

 

Born: 1899, Soerabaja, Java. Died: 1944, prisoner camp in Kiushu, Japan

 

career:

Forest Officer, educated at Wageningen Agricultural College, went to Java in 1928. He was successively stationed at numerous places in that island; in 1934 at Garoet, and since 1935 at Madioen. Since 1940 he was attached to the Forest School at Madioen.

 

Collecting localities:

W. Java: Garoet (1934); E. Java: Magetan (1935), Ngawi (1937), G. Lawoe (1940-41).

 

collections:

In Hort. and Herb. Bog. [BO]: a few numbers. In Herb. For. Res. Inst. Buitenzorg [BZF] some Ja. nos.