Career

Collections

 

Sijpkens, J.P.

 

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

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

 

Born: 1916, Sneek, Fr., Holland.

 

career:

Was educated at the Agricultural College, Wageningen, taking his Dr’s degree in 1945. He worked for some years at the Cilo, Wageningen, and in August 1946 joined the ‘Gouvernements Landbouw Bedrijven’ (Government Estates) in Indonesia, successively stationed at Martapoera (SE. Borneo), Serpong, Tjikopo and Tjipanas, in W. Java.

 

collections:

Herb. Wageningen [WAG]: > 20 nos collected at Martapoera, SE. Borneo (acq. 1947), evidently from cultivated ground. Herb. Wageningen [WAG]: a dozen plants from Tjikopo Zuid (W. Java).