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Frederik Willem van Eeden was a Dutch amateur botanist.
He was the father of the writer Frederik van Eeden.

Geoffrey Howorth Spencer Wood was an English botanist.
He obtained an MA in botany and forestry from Oxford University in 1952.
In 1954 he became Curator at the Sandakan Herbarium in present-day Sabah.
His main area of interest was trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
He died in 1957 from injuries suffered in a fuel explosion on a botanical expedition in the Andulau Hills of Brunei.