Melchior Treub
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Melchior Treub (December 26, 1851 - October 3, 1910) was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden, and afterwards remained as a botany assistant at Leiden. From 1880 until 1909 he was a botanist in the Dutch East Indies.
Treub is remembered for his botanical work with tropical flora on the island of Java. He is especially recognized for his organization of the Bogor Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg as a world-renowned scientific institution of botany. He worked for nearly 30 years at the botanical gardens, returning to the Netherlands a year prior to his death in 1910.
In 1907 Treub was the recipient of the Linnean Medal, and the Dutch "Society for the Advancement of Scientific Research in the Tropics" is now known as the Treub Maatschappij. He is also credited for coining the term protocorm to describe the early stages in the germination of lycopods.
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