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Treacher, W. Hood

 

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

 

career:

Governor of Labuan who, when the Swedish expedition of the ‘Vega’ (cf. sub Almquist) in 1879 paid a short visit to that island, offered hospitality to its leader Baron Nordenskiöld. After the latter’s return in Europe, Treacher sent him a collection of leaves and fruit of the kinds of trees which at the time grew in the island,1 for comparison with fossil material.

 

collections:

It is not mentioned whether the above-mentioned collection was made by Treacher himself. 318 Sheets of phanerogams from Labuan in Herb. State Mus. Stockholm [S]; identified by Dr E.D. Merrill.

 

literature:

(1) In Baron A.E. Nordenskiöld: ‘The voyage of the “Vega” round Asia and Europe’ (Engl. transl., London 1881) vol. 2, p. 408.