George Shaw
- George Shaw
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birth_date =December 10 ,1751
birth_place =Bierton ,Buckinghamshire
death_date =July 22 ,1813
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field =botany
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George Shaw (December 10 ,1751 -July 22 ,1813 ) was an Englishbotanist andzoologist .Shaw was born at
Bierton ,Buckinghamshire and was educated atMagdalen 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 atOxford University . He was a co-founder of theLinnean Society in 1788, and became a fellow of theRoyal Society in 1789.In 1791 Shaw became assistant keeper of the natural history department at the
British Museum , succeedingEdward Whitaker Gray as keeper in 1806. He found that most of the items donated to the museum byHans 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 assistantCharles 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
platypus and published the first scientific description of it in "The Naturalist's Miscellany" in 1799.His other publications included:
*"Museum Leverianum", containing select specimens from the museum of the late SirAshton Lever (1792-6)
*"General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History" (16 vol.) (1809-1826) (volumes IX to XVI byJames Francis Stephens )
*"The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures Of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature" (1789-1813) withFrederick Polydore Nodder (artist and engraver).The standard botanical author abbreviation G.Shaw is applied to
species he described.References
*Mullens and Swann - "A Bibliography of British Ornithology" (1917)
*William T. Stearn - "The Natural History Museum at South Kensington" ISBN 0434736007
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