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Report of an Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation Board on Science and Technology for International Development Office of International Affairs National Research Council
In Cooperation with the Pusat Penyelidikan Hutan, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1983
Panel on Mangium
FRANCOIS MERGEN, Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Professor of
Forest Genetics, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Chairman
CHARLES S. HODGES, Director, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DONALD 1. NICHOLSON, Forest Research Officer, Department of Forestry, Atherton, Queensland, Australia
HUCH POPENOE, Director, International Programs in Agriculture, Unifersity of Florida,Gainesville, Florida, USA
K. FREERK WIERSUM, Department of Forest Management, Agriculture University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Participants from Pusat Penyelidikan Hutan, Sandakan, Sabah
M. RODERICK BOWEN, FAO Seed Officer
JENNIFER CHONG,
Secretary
T. V. EUSEBIO, Seed Officer
A. J. HEPBURN, Senior Research
Officer
NORMAN JONES, FAO Chief Technical Adviser
RITA TANG, Plantation
Officer
LOW MIN TECK, Plantation Officer
THAM CHEE KEONG, Plantation
Officer
JEREMY WILLIAMS, CUSO volunteer
Other Participants
MASAHULING BENONG, Assistant Tree Breeder, Sabah Softwoods Sdn.
Bhd., Tawau, Sabah
SOEDJADI MARTODIWIRJO, Perum Perhutani, Jakarta,
Indonesia
M. W. McMYN, Project Manager, Sabah Softwoods Sdn. Bhd., Tawau,
Sabah
SHIM PHYAU SOON, Sabah Forestry Development Authority, Kota Kinabalu,
Sabah
SIM BOON LIANC, Tree Breeder, Sabah Softwoods Sdn. Bhd., Tawau,
Sabah
TAN KEE CHONG, Sabah Softwoods Sdn. Bhd., Tawau, Sabah
JOHN W.
TURNBULL, Division of Forest Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
ROYLYN L. VOSS, Agronomist
and Soils Specialist, Weyerhaeuser International Incorporated, Pacific Hardwoods
Sdn. Bhd., Lahad Datu, Sabah
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NOEL D. VIETMEYER, Professional Associate, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Mangium Study Director
National Research Council Staff
F. R. RUSKIN, BOSTlD Editor
MARY JANE ENGQUIST, Staff
Associate
HERTHA HANU, Administrative Secretary
CONSTANCE REGES,
Administrative Secretary
This book is dedicated to the memory of Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumpf, 1627-1702), the first to name and describe mangium. Sent to study plant life on the island of Amboina in 1653, Rumphius became one of the outstanding naturalists of the seventeenth century. At the age of 43 he went blind, but so intense was his dedication that, using the eyes of assistants and his own sense of touch, he continued surveying the flora and fauna and the geographical and mineralogical features of the Spice Islands for 30 years more. His drawing of mangium (opposite page) was not published until 1750, and it seems likely that it was made after he lost his sight. In mangium, Rumphius took advantage of its Moluccan name, "mangi-mangi gunong" (Pictures courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University, and the Library of Congress, respectively.)
Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation Board on Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID)
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