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Vachell, J.

 

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

 

career:

A missionary who collected plants in Java and the environs of Macao (S. China).1

He might be identical with George Harvey Vachell (fl. 1800-36), chaplain of the E.I.C. Factory at Macao, 1825-36, who is commemorated in the genus Vachellia Wight & Arn.2

 

collections:

In Herb. Fielding1 = Herb. Oxford [OXF]; also at Kew [K], and Cambridge [CGE].

 

literature:

(1) cf. Lasègue, Mus. Bot. Deless., 1845, p. 331.

(2) cf. Bretschneider, Hist. Bot. Discov. China, 1898, p. 294-298; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931, p. 309.