Information

Collaborators

Collections

Literature

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

at Sandakan

InformatioN:

The prewar series is sometimes cited with B.N.B. (British North Borneo) nos, but also with S.H. (Sandakan Herbarium) nos, though they stand for the same series.

In November 1954 the Forest Botanist, G.H.S. Wood, wrote a letter that he was shortly exhausting his Sandakan postwar A series numbered A 1-5000. The new series is numbered (SAN) 15.000 onwards, to be sure no duplication with prewar numbers will occur, the highest record Mr Wood could find being 10.802.

collaborators:

Several forest officers and native (Philippine) rangers collected on behalf of this department, e.g.:

collections:

D.M. Matthews, Conservator of Forests, Govt Br. N. Borneo, sent the 1st set of the collections made by his rangers (1918 -.) to Herb. Manila [PNH] which also distributed the duplicates; 2nd set in Herb. Sandakan [SAN]; others in Herb. Leiden [L]; Herb. Kew¹ [K] (which sent dupl. to Herb. Bog. [BO]); Herb. Berkeley (Cal.) [UC]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US].

Dupl. also in Herb. Kuala Lump. (Kepong) [KEP] and Sing. [SING].

literature:

(1) C.E.C. Fischer and H.N. Ridley in ‘Contributions to a flora of British  North Borneo’ (Kew Bull. 1932 -.); H.K. Airy shaw in l.c.