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.