SangerDaviesAE

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Sanger-Davies, Arthur Elphinstone

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

Born: 1885, Tunbridge-Wells, Sussex, England.
Died: March 22, 1945, in Japanese camp at Si Rengo-Rengo near Rantau Prapat, Sumatra.

career:

Completed his training at Oxford after starting at Cooper’s Hill; he joined the Forest Department Malay Peninsula in Aug. 1907, during his term of office holding charge of most states of the Federation; finally State Forest Officer, Negri Sembilan and Malacca; retired in June 1937, and settled at Brastagi, Sumatra. He started the regeneration-improvement-felling schemes in Malayan Forests.

collections:

Herb. Kuala Lump. [KEP], numbered in the C.F. series (see sub Conservator of Forests), collected throughout the Federated Malay States.

biographical data:

In Malayan Forester July 1937 (non vidi); l.c. 11, 1948, p. 58.

	Career Collections Biographical data
	Sanger-Davies, Arthur Elphinstone
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1885, Tunbridge-Wells, Sussex, England. Died: March 22, 1945, in Japanese camp at Si Rengo-Rengo near Rantau Prapat, Sumatra.
	career: Completed his training at Oxford after starting at Cooper’s Hill; he joined the Forest Department Malay Peninsula in Aug. 1907, during his term of office holding charge of most states of the Federation; finally State Forest Officer, Negri Sembilan and Malacca; retired in June 1937, and settled at Brastagi, Sumatra. He started the regeneration-improvement-felling schemes in Malayan Forests.
	collections: Herb. Kuala Lump. [KEP], numbered in the C.F. series (see sub Conservator of Forests), collected throughout the Federated Malay States.
	biographical data: In Malayan Forester July 1937 (non vidi); l.c. 11, 1948, p. 58.