Career

Collections

 

Sherman, Penoyer L.

 

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

 

career:

Chemist, special agent and Inspector of the Forestry Bureau, Manila, in 1901/02. In about June 1901 he was sent to Singapore, Java, and Sumatra, to investigate methods of obtaining gutta-percha.

 

collections:

He collected incidentally only, in Mindanao and possibly elsewhere in the P.I.; material in Herb. Manila [PNH]; 3 dupl. in U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US].