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Gilliland, Hamish Boyd |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
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Born: 1911, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, Africa. Died: June 1965, aged 54, ? Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa |
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Botanist, educated at Edinburgh University (B.Sc.); graduating D.Sc. at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. Appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Malaya in Sept. 1955. In 1965 he took up a professorship at Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa. His ecological studies will be published in the Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore. Author of botanical papers.1 |
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1955 onwards in Singapore.-1956. Langkawi Islands (July); Sarawak: Bako Nat. Park (May 16-22).-1960. NE. New Guinea:2 Chimbu and Daulo Pass. Borneo? |
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Grasses (in 1957 c. 250) in Herb. Sing. [SING]; ecological material will be presented later on. |
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(1) H.B. Gilliland: ‘Plant Communities on Singapore Island’ (Gard. Bull. Sing. 17, 1958, p. 82-90); ‘Common Malayan Plants’ (Singapore 1958); Flora of Malaya, vol. 3 (grasses); and several other papers, partly on grasses, and Borneo plants. (2) Cf. Fl. Mal. Bull. no 18, 1963, p. 990. |
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Nature 207, 1965, p. 808; Gard. Bull. Sing. 22, 1967, p. 107-112, incl. portr. a. bibliogr. |
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