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Perkins, Grenville Akers

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

Born: 1891, Lin Ching, China.

career:

Chemist, educated at Cornell University, taking his Ph.D.’s degree in 1917 at Pittsburgh University. From 1919-22 on the staff of the Bur. of Science, Manila; from 1922-27 Chief Chemist, Culion Leper Colony (P.I.). Since 1929 in the employ of the Carbide and Carbon Chem. Corp., now a resident of N.Y. City.

collections:

Philippines: Culion (Apr. 1923), together with H.W. Wade (see there). Certainly only few numbers.

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci., 1938.

	Career Collections Biographical data
	Perkins, Grenville Akers
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1891, Lin Ching, China.
	career: Chemist, educated at Cornell University, taking his Ph.D.’s degree in 1917 at Pittsburgh University. From 1919-22 on the staff of the Bur. of Science, Manila; from 1922-27 Chief Chemist, Culion Leper Colony (P.I.). Since 1929 in the employ of the Carbide and Carbon Chem. Corp., now a resident of N.Y. City.
	collections: Philippines: Culion (Apr. 1923), together with H.W. Wade (see there). Certainly only few numbers.
	biographical data: Amer. Men of Sci., 1938.