SkeatWW

Career

Collections

Literature

Skeat, Walter W.

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

career:

Of the Malayan Civil Service; he organized a scientific expedition under the auspices of the University of Cambridge, which collected in the north of the Malay Peninsula.¹ For detailed data cf. sub Yapp (also sub Annandale and Gwynne Vaughan); they explored G. Tahan (Aug.), however, not reaching the top.²

collections:

Herb. Kew [K] and Cambridge [CGE].

literature:

(1) cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5.
(2) W.W. Skeat: ‘A personal reconnaissance of Gunong Tahan’ (Malay Mail; reprint in Journ. Fed. Mal. Stat. Mus. 3, 1908, p. 77-90); ‘Malay magic. Being an introduction to the Folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula’ (1900) (non vidi).

	Career Collections Literature
	Skeat, Walter W.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Of the Malayan Civil Service; he organized a scientific expedition under the auspices of the University of Cambridge, which collected in the north of the Malay Peninsula.¹ For detailed data cf. sub Yapp (also sub Annandale and Gwynne Vaughan); they explored G. Tahan (Aug.), however, not reaching the top.²
	collections: Herb. Kew [K] and Cambridge [CGE].
	literature: (1) cf. Burkill in Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem. 4, 1927, nos 4-5. (2) W.W. Skeat: ‘A personal reconnaissance of Gunong Tahan’ (Malay Mail; reprint in Journ. Fed. Mal. Stat. Mus. 3, 1908, p. 77-90); ‘Malay magic. Being an introduction to the Folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula’ (1900) (non vidi).