Genus Vandenboschia
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For Benjamin Roelof van den Bosch (1810–1862), Dutch physician, botanist and specialist in ferns and mosses. He studied medicine at Leiden University (1828–1837), where he obtained his doctorate. Thereafter he established a practice in Goes, but was also highly in demand because of his botanical knowledge. On the death of the plant collectors JH Molkenboer (1854) and his co-author and co-collector F Dozy (1856), Van den Bosch was appointed to the (now) National Herbarium of the Netherlands. Together, he and CM van der Sande Lacoste of the National Herbarium studied Molkenboer and Dozy’s moss collection, and published a book, Bryologica Javanica (1861), based on their uncompleted work. This book describes many Indonesian mosses already known, and includes more than 300 new mosses. Van den Bosch was also a founding member of the Royal Dutch Botanical Society in 1845.