SUKKULENTENFORSCHUNG IN SÜDWESTAFRIKA "Research on South West African Succulents" (1928)

"Research on South West African Succulents. Experiences and Results of my Travels from 1923 to 1925." 

Publisher's printed card covers.

Part II. 145pp. Illustrated. Text in German.

(See: Southern African Botanical Literature 1600 - 1988, page 73)

Copy belonged to academic Johannes Wilhelm Pont (1898-1977), a Dutch national who immigrated to South Africa in 1921. He initially worked as a teacher at the Kroonstad high school and in 1928 joined the South African Department of Agriculture. In 1936 he obtained his Phd. in plant physiology at the Rijks University of Utrecht. He was a specialist in the field of seed cultivation and plant nutrition.