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Arden, Stanley

 

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

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

 

Born: 1874. Died: 1942.

 

career:

Employed in the Agricultural Department of the  Malay Peninsula, 1900-1912 .In 1903 put in charge of a small garden in Malaya, which was abolished in 1906; planter in Johore, attacked by his coolies in 1908 and wounded one in defence, which caused his getting into trouble with the law; he subsequently left the Malay Peninsula and ran an estate in Sumatra; in 1911 he caught encephalitis and could never walk again, and hardly write or speak intelligibly (Ridley in litt.).

 

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING] (pres. 1902) (cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5).