Career

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Biographical data

 

Ferwerda, Willem Johannes Jan

 

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

 

Born: 1886, Heeg, Fr., Holland.

 

career:

Since 1908 planter in the D.E.I.; in 1918 appointed Assistant Estate-Manager of the ‘Pondok Gedeh Landen’, since 1926 Head Estate-Manager; retired in 1940.

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: material of Rafflesia rochussenii Teijsm. & Binn. with the host-plant Tetrastigma lanceolarium Blume (pres. 1929); and Rafflesia material collected in Febr. 1928.

 

biographical data:

Wie is dat? 1935, p. 452.