Career

Collections

 

Beach, Kay H.

 

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

 

career:

Resident of Edwardsville, Kansas, a Quaker (Friend) who collected plants on his Friends Service Committee missions in the Far and Near East. In 1948-49 he was in northern China and collected about Shanghai, Hongkong, and Manila (Luzon) on the way home. In 1951-52 he was in India in the same work, returning via Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel.

 

collections:

In Herb. Univ. Cal.  [UC] and U.S. Nat. Mus. [US] (cf. Index Herb. pt If, 1954).