Person
Shaw, Alfred Eland (1861 - 1931)
- Born
- 1861
Carlow, Ireland - Died
- 16 June 1931
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Entomologist
Summary
Alfred Shaw was a medical practitioner who, after coming to Australia in 1910, practiced in Healesville (Vic.), New Guinea and Wynnum (Qld) before settling in New South Wales. For several years he worked as ship's surgeon with the Australian-Orient Line and the United Steamship Company, as well as at some of Sydney's mental asylums. Shaw was an enthusiastic entomologist whose interests included insects in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and locusts). He published several papers on Australian Blattidae (cockroaches). Before leaving Queensland he presented the Museum with a collection of cockroach specimens. The Australian Museum received from him his card index to Blattidae and his scientific library. Shaw was a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from 1922.
Details
Chronology
- 1883 - 1931?
- Award - Fellow, Entomological Society of London
- 1892
- Education - Licentiate, Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1892
- Education - Member, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1910
- Life event - Migrated to Australia
- 1922 - 1931
- Career position - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- M., A. [ie Musgrave, Anthony], 'Dr Alfred Eland Shaw', Australian Museum magazine, 4 (7) (1931), 232. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62024327. Details
- 'Shaw, Alfred Eland (-1931)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473230. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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