Career

Collections

 

Heeteren, Hendrik Victor Alexander van

 

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

 

Born: 1891, Keboemen, Java. Died: Oct. 5, 1945, Buitenzorg, Java.

 

career:

Entered the D.E.I. Government service in 1910, at first as a Student Surveyor of the Forest Service. In 1919 he was appointed Asst Curator of the Economic Garden of the Agricultural Institute at Buitenzorg, of which he was finally Curator.

 

collections:

From time to time he sent some plants for identification to Herb. Bog. [BO], e.g. from Tjibinoeng (W. Java) and from the kapok plantation at Moektihardjo near Pati (Centr. Java).