Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Roorda van Eysinga, N.P.P.J.

 

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

 

Born: 1894, Middelburg, Netherlands. Died: 1940, killed in battle, Loosduinen/The Hague, Netherlands

 

career:

Book-keeper; from 1920-23 attached to the K.N.I.L. (Netherlands Indian Army) at Magelang, Central Java. After return to the Netherlands he took up his old profession. In his spare time he studied the flora.

 

Collecting localities:

Centr. Java. 1920-23. Environs of Magelang, Kedu Residency, Possibly elsewhere in Java.

 

collections:

Presented (1971) to Herb. Leiden [L], together with a Dutch collection partly made together with his son, P.N.H.G. Roorda van Eysinga (born at Magelang, 1920), Agricultural Engineer, and partly by the latter (1940-47). It includes also a small Swiss collection leg. J.H. Roorda van Eysinga, and some cultivated plants.