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Frederik Willem van Eeden (Haarlem, 26 October 1829 – Haarlem, 4 May 1901) was a well-known Dutch amateur botanist. He was the father of the writer Frederik van Eeden.

He was born in Haarlem, where he became general secretary-treasurer of the Dutch Society for the Promotion of Industry and director of the Museum of Applied Arts. From 1871 until his death he was director of the Colonial Museum (the predecessor of the Colonial Institute, later Royal Institute for the Tropics in Amsterdam), which was founded on his initiative in 1864.

F. W. van Eeden was probably the first to use the concept (not the word) natural monument (in his book Onkruid). In this popular science classic, he suggested the idea of ​​preserving some parts of the Netherlands as a monument to nature.

Works
From 1868, starting with volume XIII, Van Eeden edited the standard work Flora Batava. In addition, he made many contributions to the Dutch Herbal Archive, the Album of Nature, the Journal of the Dutch Society of Industry and the Volksalmanak of the Society for Utility of General.
 * De Duinen en Bosschen van Kennemerland (Groningen, 1866)
 * Hortus Batavus (Amsterdam, 1868)
 * De Botanie van het dagelijksch leven (Purmerend, 1870)
 * De Koloniën op de internationale tentoonstelling te Amsterdam in 1883 (Haarlem, 1884)
 * Onkruid. Botanische Wandelingen (2 delen, Haarlem, 1886)
 * Noorderlicht. Bezoek aan Scandinavië in 1887 (Haarlem, 1888).

Literature
Duuren, David van: 125 jaar verzamelen: Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. KIT, Amsterdam, 1990.