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Flora of Micronesia, gymnospermae (Smithsonian contributions to botany) by F. Raymond Fosberg, 1975 History of botanical exploration in Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela (Smithsonian contributions to botany) by Otto Huber, 1894 Flora of Micronesia (Smithsonian contributions to botany) by F. Raymond Fosberg, 1993 The plant life of the Sonoran desert, (Carnegie institution of Washington.Supplementary publication) by Forrest Shreve, 1936 Aeration and air-content;: The rôle of oxygen in root activity, (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication) by Frederic E Clements, 1921 New plants of the Pacific slope, with some revisions (Smithsonian institution. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington, 1908. 25 cm) by Charles V Piper, 1908 Cactus maxonii, a new cactus from Guatemala (Smithsonian institution. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington, 1908. 25 cm. vol. L) by Joseph Nelson Rose, 1908 Synoptical flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, being a second edition of vol. I, part II, and vol. II, part I, collected (Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections) by Asa Gray, 1881 Morkillia, a new name for the genus Chitonia: With description of a new species (Smithsonian institution. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington, 1908. 25 cm) by Joseph Nelson Rose, 1908 Adaption and origin in the plant world: I. Factors and functions in coastal dunes (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication) by Emmett Virgil Martin, 1939 Botanical features of North American deserts, (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication) by Daniel Trembly MacDougal, 1908 Experimental studies on the nature of species (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication) by Jens Clausen, 1958 Additional notes on Mexican plants of the genus Ribes (Smithsonian institution. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington, 1908. 25 cm) by Joseph Nelson Rose, 1908 Appendix from The vegetation of Petén (Guatemala) (Publication / Carnegie Institution) by Cyrus Longworth Lundell, 1937

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41. George Shaw | Ask.com Encyclopedia
    10 December 1751 Bierton, Buckinghamshire Died 22 July 1813 Nationality English Fields botany Institutions Oxford University  
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42. George Shaw
    10 December 1751 Bierton, Buckinghamshire Died 22 July 1813 Nationality English Fields botany Institutions Oxford University  
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    Extractions: Nationality English Fields botany Institutions Oxford University George Shaw (10 December 1751 - 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist Shaw was born at Bierton Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford , receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University . He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society in 1788, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1789. In 1791 Shaw became assistant keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum , succeeding Edward Whitaker Gray as keeper in 1806. He found that most of the items donated to the museum by Hans Sloane were in very bad condition. Medical and anatomical material was sent to the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons , but many of the stuffed animals and birds had deteriorated and had to be burnt. The pay from the museum was so poor that Shaw had to spend much of his time writing, and thus neglected the upkeep of the collection. He was succeeded after his death by his assistant Charles Konig Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several of the common Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland " (1794). He was among the first scientists to examine a

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