Career

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Biographical data

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born:  Scarborough, England. Died: Sept. 12, 1858, Hongkong.

career:

A colonel surgeon, M.D. Edinburgh 1845, first in China, and in Hongkong since 1848.

Harlandia Hance and some other plants have been named in his honour.

collections:

Herb. Kew [K]: plants from China and Hongkong. In the Brit. Museum [BM] specimens also, including Cyperus compactus from Singapore, collected in Maio (May) 1857.

biographical data:

Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb. 1936.