MacNairJFA

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MacNair, Major John Frederick Adolphus

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

Died: 1910.

career:

Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General, Straits Settlements;¹ officiating H.M. Commissioner, Perak; in 1881-82 officiating as Lieutenant-Governor of Penang.

Author of a report on the principal timber trees of the Peninsula; it recommended the creation of a Forest Department.

collections:

He collected specimens of timber trees in Penang, herbarium of which was sent for identification to Cantley (1881-82).² Probably preserved at Kew [K] or Singapore [SING].

Hort. Sing.: seeds and ferns (pres. 1879).

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Perak and the Malays: “Sarong” and “Krs”’ (l878, w. map & pl.).
(2) cf. Cantley’s Report on the Forests of the Str. Settlem., App. E, 1883.

biographical data:

Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	MacNair, Major John Frederick Adolphus
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Died: 1910.
	career: Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General, Straits Settlements;¹ officiating H.M. Commissioner, Perak; in 1881-82 officiating as Lieutenant-Governor of Penang. Author of a report on the principal timber trees of the Peninsula; it recommended the creation of a Forest Department.
	collections: He collected specimens of timber trees in Penang, herbarium of which was sent for identification to Cantley (1881-82).² Probably preserved at Kew [K] or Singapore [SING]. Hort. Sing.: seeds and ferns (pres. 1879).
	literature: (1) Author of ‘Perak and the Malays: “Sarong” and “Krs”’ (l878, w. map & pl.). (2) cf. Cantley’s Report on the Forests of the Str. Settlem., App. E, 1883.
	biographical data: Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.