Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

 

Phillips, Philip

 

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

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

 

Born: 1873, Br. India. Died: 1951, Perth, Australia.

 

career:

Was educated in forestry in Br. India, England and Germany; served in Br. India from 1897-1901; in 1901 deputed to Malayan Forest Service, and staying permanently till his retirement in 1926. Pioneer of Forest Conservation in Malaya.

 

Collecting localities:

In Pahang, Malay Peninsula (cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5).

 

collections:

Herb. Kuala Lump. [KEP], numbered in the C.F. (cf. sub Conservator of Forests) series.

 

biographical data:

Mal. For. 14, 1951, p. 174.