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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

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)