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George Shaw (biologist)

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578: 591: 33: 511: 524: 584: 517: 210:. Shaw's library of natural history books and some of his specimens and equipment were sold at auction by Leigh & Sotheby in London on 9 March 1814 (and two following days); a copy of the catalogue is in Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(8)). 677: 561: 179:, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786, he became the assistant lecturer in botany at the 628: 421:
Shaw, George; Nodder, Frederick Polydore; Nodder, Elizabeth; Nodder, Richard Polydore; McMillan, Buchanan; Leach, William Elford (1789).
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Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his "Zoology of
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The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature
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Watkins, M. & Boelens, B. (2015): Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. pp. 219. Pelagic Publishing.
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were in very bad condition. Medical and anatomical material was sent to the museum at the
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In 1791, Shaw became assistant keeper of the natural history department at the
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as keeper in 1806. He found that most of the items donated to the museum by
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and published the first scientific description of it in
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London: Printed for Nodder & Co. 243:, he described numerous new species of 640: 482:Göttingen State and University Library 451:A Bibliography of British Ornithology 571: 504: 13: 443: 220:Category:Taxa named by George Shaw 14: 729: 472: 254:His other publications included: 589: 582: 576: 522: 515: 509: 688:Employees of the British Museum 683:Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford 693:19th-century British botanists 658:18th-century British botanists 414: 375: 364: 333: 316: 1: 309: 297:botanical author abbreviation 673:Fellows of the Royal Society 601:. You can help Knowledge by 534:. You can help Knowledge by 183:. He became a fellow of the 7: 486:The Naturalist's Miscellany 424:The Naturalist's Miscellany 346:The Naturalist's Miscellany 234:The Naturalist's Miscellany 10: 734: 570: 503: 490:Musei Leveriani explicatio 404:Shaw, George (1792–1796). 217: 289:Frederick Polydore Nodder 204:Royal College of Surgeons 142: 132: 118: 111: 96: 86: 68: 39: 30: 23: 385:. 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Bierton
Buckinghamshire
London
English
Magdalen College, Oxford
MA
Botany
Zoology
University of Oxford
botanist
zoologist
Bierton
Buckinghamshire
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
University of Oxford
Royal Society
British Museum
Edward Whitaker Gray
Hans Sloane
Royal College of Surgeons
Charles Konig
Category:Taxa named by George Shaw
New Holland
platypus
herpetology
reptile
amphibian
Ashton Lever
Blackfriars Rotunda

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