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

Born: 1926, Cheltenham, near Sydney, Australia. Died: 1997.

career:

Graduated from the University of Sydney (1948); botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales since 1948 (from 1962-63 Liaison Officer at Kew); 1972- Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens and the N.S.W. National Herbarium.

He attended the opening of the Lae Herbarium in New Guinea.

Collecting localities:

Between 1962-63. Some cultivated Casuarina spp. in Singapore.- 1965. East New Guinea: Port Moresby area (Apr. 6), Sogeri area (7); Wau, Bulolo, Mt Kaindi (8-9); Bulolo-Lae (10), Lae (11-12), Aiyura-Kainantu area in Eastern Highlands (13-14).

collections:

In Nat. Herb. N.S.W. [NSW]: c. 25 nos from New Guinea. He collected some herbarium and cytological material of selected groups of angiosperms¹.

literature:

(1) Cf. Pac. Sc. Ass. Inf. Bull. 19, no 4, 1967, p. 9.

Some results incorporated in B.G. Briggs & L.A.S. Johnson: ‘The Status and relationships of the Australasian species of Typha’ (Contr. N.S.W. Nat. Herb. 4).

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