Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Spaan, Willem Jan

 

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

 

Born: 1874, Velp, Gld, Holland

 

career:

Since 1896 Forest Officer in the employ of the D.E.I. Government, successively stationed at Japara, Djokja-Kedoe, Bondowoso (1899-1907), and at several other stations in the teak districts of Java in 1915 at Buitenzorg, and in 1919 at Malang. Early in 1925 he was promoted Inspector, and retired towards the end of the year.

 

Collecting localities:

E. Java: Kendang Mts in Besoeki (1906).

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: a specimen of Santalum album L.1

 

literature:

(1) W.J. Spaan: ‘Mededeelingen over den Sandelboom’ (Tectona 3, 1910/11, p. 129-155).