Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

 

Wester, Peter Johnson

 

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

 

Born: 1887, Arbrå, Sweden.

 

career:

Horticulturist, on the staff of the Bureau of Agriculture, Manila, P.I., 1911-25: from 1917-19 Adviser Dept Mindanao-Sulu. In 1915 he paid a visit to Java to investigate various cultures.

Author of several papers on Citrus and other useful plants of the Philippines in the Philip. Agric. Review 1915-21.1

 

Collecting localities:

c.1915-17. Philippines. Luzon: Abra, Ilocos Norte, Baguio (Benguet); Lamao (Bataan), Union Prov., Manila, Camarines, Albay, Sorsogon, etc.; Mindanao, Cebu, Bohol.

 

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH] (acq. 1915-17), partly numbered in the B.S. series (cf. sub Bureau of Science), partly with private numbers. Mainly food plants (many Citrus sp.).

 

literature:

(1) And of ‘The food plants of the Philippines’ (Bull. Bur. Agric. P.I. no 39, 3rd edit., revised 1924).

 

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci. 1927.