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

Born: 1928, London, England.

career:

Graduated B.Sc. (Special) at London (1949); Ph.D. 1951. Demonstrator in Biology, University of Malaya, Singapore, 1951-54; Librarian Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1954; 1954-64 Lecturer in Cryptogamic Botany, University of Malaya; 1964-66 Senior Lecturer, University of Singapore; 1966-68 Professor of Botany, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, now in the Biology Department, Nanyang University, Singapore.¹

Collecting localities:

1951. Malaysia: Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sarawak.-In 1967 at Jambu Bongkok, Trengganu (Feb.-Mar.); G. Benom, Pahang (Apr.);¹ Langkawi Is (May).

collections:

Mainly bryophytes and pteridophytes, nos 1-4000 in Herb. Sing. Univ. [SINU]; nos 4050-4378 in Herb. Univ. Malaya Kuala Lump. [KLU].

literature:

(1) Author of ‘An account of the Malaysian Leucobryaceae (‘lumut puteh’)’ (Gard. Bull. Sing. 20, 1964, p. 315-360); ‘Malayan Botany’ (East. Univ. Press 1966); ‘Bryophytes and Filmy Ferns from Gunong Benom’ (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool. 23, no 2, 1972, p. 17-20); etc.

biographical data:

Who’s who in Malaysia and Singapore 1967.

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