Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Seal, John Edward

 

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

 

Born: 1923, Leicester, England.

 

career:

Educated at Leicester, but university training interrupted by the war; Sarawak Government Civil Servant, and Honorary Curator of Botany, Sarawak Museum. Amateur botanist who in his spare time looks after the Sarawak Herbarium; his special interest is Begoniaceae.

 

Collecting localities:

W. Borneo, all over Sarawak from April 1954 onwards.

 

collections:

Herb. Sarawak [SAR]: 2 specimens of each number; remaining specimens to Herb. Sing. [SING]. In June 1956 his collection amounted to nos S 1-S 680.