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Foxworthy, Frederick William (1877-1950)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Frederick William
Last name
Foxworthy
Initials
F.W.
Life Dates
1877 - 1950
Collecting Dates
1906 - 1932
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes Unknown
Organisation(s)
A, AMES, B, BM, CM, E, GH, K, KEP, L, MO, NY, P, PNH, SING, US, WRSL
Countries
Indo-China: ThailandMalesian region: Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia
Associate(s)
Bureau of Science, Manila (specimens to)
Burkill, Isaac Henry (1870-1965) (co-collector)
Conservator of Forests, Kepong (fl. 1908) (specimens to)
Demesa (co-collector)
Forestry Bureau Manila (1900-1945) (specimens to)
Ramos, Maximo (-1932) (co-collector)
Robinson, Charles Budd (1871-1913) (co-collector)
Symington, Colin Fraser (1905-1943) (co-collector)
Villamil, A. (bis) (fl. 1915-1917) (co-collector)
Ngadiman bin (Hadji) Ismail (-1958) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist from Goodland, South of Chicago, who graduated from Cornell University (1904). He was employed as a botanist of the Bureau of Science, Manila and specialised in timber tress of the Philippines. Foxworthy was transferred to the Bureau of Forestry (1911) and later joined the Forest Department of the Malay Peninsula (1918-1932).
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 207; Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 261; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 205; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 731, 769; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1088;
Foxworthy, Frederick William (1877-1950)
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