Career

Collections

 

Schwartz, A.

 

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

career:

German ex-soldier. From 1912 or 1913-21 Assistant Curator of the Mountain Garden at Tjibodas, W. Java. He collected ferns on the slopes of G. Gedeh. In 1939 he conducted an expedition of the Dutch New Guinea Company, during which botanical collections were made by Anang (see there).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: ferns, numbers above 2600, identified by van Alderwerlt van Rosenburgh, who erroneously wrote the name ‘Swartz’ on the labels; dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L].