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Fraser, M.

 

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

 

Died: 1884 or 1885,1 murdered by Muruts at Kawang, Br. N. Borneo.

 

career:

Medical Officer of the Br. N. Borneo Co., appointed at Kudat in 1883.

 

Collecting localities:

1883-85. Br. N. Borneo: Kudat, Marudu Bay, Balambangan Isl. (N of Borneo), Gaya, Papar, Banggi (= Banguey or Panggi) (March 1885).

 

collections:

Herb. Kew [K]: 293 nos (pres. 1885).

 

literature:

(1) According to Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42, 1914, p. 2, he was murdered in 1884; this does not correspond with the plant collections, evidently made till March 1885.