Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Houwing, Herman

 

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

 

Born: 1888, Heerenveen, Fr., Holland.

 

career:

Educated at Wageningen Agricultural College, worked for some years in sugar factories in Holland and Java (Djokja); since 1914 in the employ of the Experiment Station for the Java Sugar Industry (Pasoeroean), respectively stationed at Djokja (1914-17), Koedoes (1917-25), and at Djokja again (1925-34). Subsequently he studied dental surgery at Utrecht; at present practising at The Hague.

 

Collecting localities:

1923-27. Centr. Java: mainly at Koedoes and near some sugar factories.

 

collections:

Herb. Pasoer. [PAS now in BO]: 880 nos; some dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L].