Career

Collecting localities

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

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

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

Born: 1914, Formby, Lanc., England.

career:

Agriculturist, educated at Cambridge University; A.I.C.T.A. (Trinidad); in the Agricultural Department, Malaya, 1937-41, 1945-hodie; 1941-45 Malayan Volunteer Air Force (R.A.F.).

Agricultural Officer of the Dept of Agriculture S.S. & F.M.S., stationed at Telok Anson, Perak.

Collecting localities:

Together with his wife he collected living plants on Mt Kinabalu in Jan.-Feb. 1966. They were brought back to England (at least partly in Kew Gardens).²

He collected Goodyera hispida and Bulbophyllum concinnum, two new records for Selangor, Malaya, in the Templer National Park.

collections:

Especially plants of economic interest, e.g. keladis (Araceae) in Lower Perak.¹ 

Herb. Sing. [SING], also orchids and plants from limestone hills.

literature:

(1) cf. Report Bot. Gard. Sing. for 1939, p. 2; and Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 11, 1941, p. 244.

(2) E.F. Allen: ‘A mountain hunt yields garden treasures’ (Straits Times Annual 1973, p. 146-147, photogr.).

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