Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

 

Low, James

 

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

 

Died: 1852

 

career:

Lieutenant-Colonel in the Madras Army, who joined the Penang establishment in 1818, and later (1823-40) was in civil charge of Province Wellesley; subsequently Assistant Resident at Singapore; in 1850 returned to Europe.

Author of ‘A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang’.

 

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula, Kedah: Kedah Peak (1836).

 

collections:

Herb. Kew [K]: a few plants. Also dupl. in Herb. Edinb. [E], incl. ferns with Herb. Greville.

 

biographical data:

Dict. Nat. Biogr. 34, p. 183; Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.