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Heusden, Willem Constans van

 

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

 

Born: 1898, Delft, Z.H., Holland.

 

career:

Was educated at the Agricultural College, Wageningen; Agriculturist for S. Sumatra (stationed at Tandjong Karang) in the employ of the General Agricultural Syndicate, 1933-37; subsequenty stationed in the Head Office at Batavia, as Adviser for the Rubber restriction; from 1942-45 P.O.W.; in 1947 returning to the E. Indies as Agricultural Adviser.

 

Collecting localities:

Nov. 1933-1935. S. Sumatra: in the Lampong Districts and near Sg. Laroe (Palembang).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: some Selaginellas1 and other plants.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Alston in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buit. sér. 3, vol. 14, 1937, p. 180-181.