Pieter Adriaan Bergsma
1830–82
Dutch natural scientist. Doctorate in mathematics and physics, University of Ghent, 1854. Took the civil service examination for the Dutch East Indies in 1858. Engineer for the Geographic Service in the Dutch East Indies, leaving for Batavia (Jakarta) in 1861. Interested in meteorology. Vice-president of the Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indië (Royal Scientific Society of the Dutch East Indies, 1880; president, 1881.
Sources
Natuurkundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 40 (1881): 399
NNBW 4: 122–3
Correspondence vol. 28, Appendix III
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
NNBW: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch Woordenboek. Edited by P. C. Molhuysen et al. 10 vols. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1911–37.
