GriffithsJ

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Griffiths, John

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

career:

Author of a paper on worm-shells, discovered at an island off the NW. coast of Sumatra (Phil. Trans. vol. 96); at the time in the possession of a beautiful collection of corallines. Evidently about 1800 a resident of Sumatra.¹

collections:

He sent living material from Sumatra to the Calcutta Bot. Gard.²

literature:

(1) Cf. W. Marsden: ‘The History of Sumatra’ (1811, p. 121, 122).
(2) Cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814.

	Career Collections Literature
	Griffiths, John
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	career: Author of a paper on worm-shells, discovered at an island off the NW. coast of Sumatra (Phil. Trans. vol. 96); at the time in the possession of a beautiful collection of corallines. Evidently about 1800 a resident of Sumatra.¹
	collections: He sent living material from Sumatra to the Calcutta Bot. Gard.²
	literature: (1) Cf. W. Marsden: ‘The History of Sumatra’ (1811, p. 121, 122). (2) Cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814.