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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1886, London, England. Died: 1951.

career:

Assistant Conservator of Forests Malay Peninsula¹ since 1907; in 1916 in Imperial Service, in 1918 in Sudan (Africa); in June 1919 appointed Conservator of the newly established Forest Department Sarawak;² in 1926 temporary Forest Adviser to Fiji. In 1928 in the Malay Peninsula again; since 1930 Director of Forests, and in 1935 Director & Adviser on Forestry S.S. and F.M.S.; retired in 1940. In 1945 he returned to the Peninsula with British Military Administration for three months, as Lieutenant-Colonel.

In the years 1935-38 he made visits of inspection in Johore, Kedah, and Kelantan.

Shorea meadiana Symington was named after him.

collections:

Malay Peninsula and Sarawak plants, at least partly, in C.F. (= Conservator of Forests) series, in Herb. Kuala Lumpur [KEP]. In 1926/27 he collected in Fiji.

literature:

(1) Author of ‘The mangrove forests of the Westcoast of the Fed. Mal. States’ (1912).

(2) ditto of ‘Forestry in Sarawak’ (Emp. For. Journ. 4, 1925, p. 92-99, 3 pl.). 

biographical data:

Malayan Forester 9, 1940, p. 101-102; l.c. 14, 1951, p. 58-59.

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