text: Since 1915 Forest Officer in the D.E.I. Forest Service, in July 1917 charged with the forest reconnaissance of Palembang; since 1918 connected with the Forest Research Institute (F.R.I.), Buitenzorg; in 1937 appointed Inspector, in 1938 stationed at Makassar (SW. Celebes) for the supervision of the forests of the eastern part of the Malay Archipelago; since 1941 Secretary of the Committee for Economic Plants. He accompanied a Central Borneo expedition.
  Besides of the publications cited below, he is the author of many papers relating to forestry and of a key for the identification of Malaysian arboreous genera by means of vegetative characters.1 In May 1949 he returned to the Forest Research Institute at Buitenzorg, Java, to compile a work on Indonesian timbers. He retired in 1952, arriving in Holland in July.
  Several plants from the Malayan region, including the tree genus Endertia Steenis & de Wit (Leg.), were named after him.