Collections

 

Keir, Walter

 

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

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

 

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Surgeon who about 1699 sent plants from Johore in the Straits of Malacca and from China to Petiver (cf. Mus. Petiv. 1695, p. 44); at present in Herb. Brit. Mus. [BM] (acq. with Herb. Sloane). He was in England in August 1700 (cf. letter to Petiver in Sloane MSS 4063, folio 41).