Education
Boschma studied botany and zoology at the University of Amsterdam. Boschma went to the former Dutch East Indies, where he studied embryology, functional morphology in Reptilia and Amphibians and stony corals.
Boschma studied botany and zoology at the University of Amsterdam. Boschma went to the former Dutch East Indies, where he studied embryology, functional morphology in Reptilia and Amphibians and stony corals.
He joined a Danish expedition to the Kai Islands in 1922 as an associate of the Danish zoologist Doctor Th. Mortensen and sampled and studied corals. He is taxon author of (among other invertebrate organisms) different species of Fire coral.
Thereafter he went back to The Netherlands to take up the post of chief assistant at the Zoological Laboratory of the State University at Leiden.
In 1925 he started giving lectures in general zoology for medical students and in 1931 he became professor of general zoology. In 1934 he became director of the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden.
He was the first director who was specialized in invertebrate animals. He retired at age 65 in 1958, but continued giving lectures until 1963 and writing scientific articles until 1974.