AndersonW1893

Career

Collecting localities

Literature

Anderson, William

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

career:

Is mentioned by Kränzlin¹ as collector of New Guinea plants in 1893; data on collecting localities are omitted. F.M. Bailey describes Dendrobium andersoniana, named after William Anderson who collected the specimen in British New Guinea.²

A certain Anderson (initials not mentioned) was a settler and storekeeper at Dedele (Cloudy Bay) († 1899); he was a native of Norway, owned coconut plantations and began to exploit rubber, living 15 years in the colony.³He might be identical with the above-mentioned collector.

Collecting localities:

British New Guinea.

literature:

(1) ‘Orch. Papuan.’ in Oesterr. hot. Zeitschr. 44, 1894, p. 161-162.

(2) cf. Queensl. Agr. Journ. 1901, p. 411-412.

(3) cf. Ann. Rep. Br. N.G. for 1898-99, Victoria 1900, p. 13.

	Career Collecting localities Literature
	Anderson, William
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Is mentioned by Kränzlin¹ as collector of New Guinea plants in 1893; data on collecting localities are omitted. F.M. Bailey describes Dendrobium andersoniana, named after William Anderson who collected the specimen in British New Guinea.² A certain Anderson (initials not mentioned) was a settler and storekeeper at Dedele (Cloudy Bay) († 1899); he was a native of Norway, owned coconut plantations and began to exploit rubber, living 15 years in the colony.³He might be identical with the above-mentioned collector.
	Collecting localities: British New Guinea.
	literature: (1) ‘Orch. Papuan.’ in Oesterr. hot. Zeitschr. 44, 1894, p. 161-162. (2) cf. Queensl. Agr. Journ. 1901, p. 411-412. (3) cf. Ann. Rep. Br. N.G. for 1898-99, Victoria 1900, p. 13.