Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1858, near Liverpool, England. Died: 1934, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England.

career:

Trained at Kew, in the service of the Gardens Department Str. Settlements from 1878 or 1879 to 1910, first in Singapore¹ and since March 1903 Superintendent of Gardens and Forests, Penang. He retired in 1910 from ill health; afterwards he undertook journeys to S. America and elsewhere for the purpose of reporting on rubber.

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula. 1893. Pahang: Pahang River, G. Chini.-1899. Penang and Taiping Hills, Perak (Oct.).-1904. Kedah, limestone hill G. Geriang (June); Langkawi Isls (Dec.).-1905. Langkawi Isls (Oct.).

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING]: e.g. from Pahang (1893) 259 nos!

literature:

(1) W. Fox: ‘Guide to the Botanic Gardens, Singapore’ (1889).

biographical data:

Journ. Kew Guild 2, 1905, p. 227 + portr.; l.c. 1935, p. 462-466 portr.; Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 8, 1935, p. 164.