Career

Collecting localities

Literature

 

Andersson, John

 

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

 

career:

Wichmann1 mentions that a certain John Andersson has pointed to the occurrence of ‘peat’ in Sumatra already in the year 1794.

 

Collecting localities:

It seems probable that A. had samples, and possibly also plants from Sumatra.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Versl. gew. verg. Wis- & Natuurk. Afd. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam 29 Mei, 1909, vol. 18, 1909, p. (5)-(9).