Career

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M(e)aurevert

 

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

 

career:

From Pondicherry in Bengal, draughtsman, from 1823-26 attached to the ‘Natuurkundige Commissie’ (Commission for Natural Sciences) for the D. E.I.

Goodyera maurevertii Blume was named after him (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936).

 

collections:

Cited as collector ofthe above-mentioned orchid on G. Karang in Bantam, W. Java (in March 1823, when accompanying J.C. van Hasselt, see there). Probably in Herb. Leiden [L].