George Kearsley Shaw

See also: George Shaw

George Kearsley Shaw , born the December 10th 1751 and dead the July 22nd 1813, is a Botaniste and a British Zoologiste .

Shaw, doctor of formation, become professor-assistant in Botanique at the university of Oxford in 1787. It opens a cabinet with London and takes an active part in the scientific life of the city. It is one of the cofounders of the Société linnéenne of London in 1788 and becomes member of the Royal Society in 1789. In 1791, he is assistant-conservative at the department of Natural history of the British Museum, in 1807, conservative.

Shaw publishes one of the British scientific studies of the Australian animals : Zoology off New Holland (1794). It belongs to the first scientists to examine the Ornithorynque and publishes its first description in The Naturalist' S Miscellany in 1799.

Among its other publications, we can quote:

  • Museum Leverianum presenting specimens belonging to the collection of Sir Ashton Rising (1792-1796).
  • General Zoology, gold Systematic Natural History (of 14 volumes) (1800-1826) (volumes 9 to 14 are of James Francis Stephens (1792-1852)).
  • The Naturalist' S Miscellany: However, Coloured Figures Off Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Natural (1789-1813) with the engraver and artist Frederick Polydore Nodder.

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