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).