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Biographical data

 

Shaw, Walter Robert

 

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

 

Born: 1871, Galena, Ill., U.S.A.. Died: before 1933, San Francisco, U.S.A.

 

career:

Botanist, taking his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1897; from 1906-22 successively teacher and Professor of Botany in the University of Manila, P.I.

Author of many papers on Philippine Fungi. He collected plants mainly round Manila, Luzon.

 

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH]; probably hardly any duplicates.

 

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci. 1927.