Career

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Biographical data

 

Denison, N.

 

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

 

career:

Since 1869 in various government functions in Sarawak (NW. Borneo);1 in 1876 appointed Secretary of the Resident Magistrate in Perak, Malay Peninsula, and in 1881 Superintendent of Lower Perak.

Artocarpus denisoniana King was named after him.

 

collections:

He presented 650 plants to Hort. Sing. in 1883. The above-mentioned plant was not collected by himself.

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Journal of a trip from Sarawak to Meri’ (Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. no 10, 1883, p. 173-188; trip from April 29-May 25, 1872).

 

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.