> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 551](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333690) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9549-1) LSID 9549-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311097) QID Q311097 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shaw, George (1751-1813), British naturalist; MD Oxford 1787; assistant lecturer in botany Oxford 1788; keeper of natural history collections British Museum 1807-1813. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Shaw* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Shaw*\] #### Herbarium and types 185 original sketches at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 266 (b. 10 Dec 1751, d. 22 Jul 1813); BM 4: 1911; Dawson p. 747; Desmond p. 552; DNB 51: 436 (17: 1374); Henrey 2: 141, 149, 150-151, 670; NI 1838; SO 149, 151, 439, 767C; TL-1/1237; TL-2/6033; Tucker 1: 647. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2060. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 220: 760-761. 1964; Gentleman's Mag. 1813(2): 290-292 (obit.). - Barber, L., The heyday of natural history 161, 164-165. 1980. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 5.35, 229.146, 271.50. 1980. - Calaby, J.H., Austral. dict. biogr. 2: 437. 1967. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 311-312. 1980. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 350. 1977. - Gunther, A.E., The founders of science at the British Museum (1753-1900), 33-37. 1980. - Hoefer, ed., Nouv. biogr. gén. 43: 922-923. 1864. - Lipscomb, G., Hist. antiq. County Buckinghamshire 2: 102-103, 273. 1817. - Lisney, A.A., Bibl. Brit. Lepidoptera 1608-1799, p. 227-245. 1960 (portr., bibl.). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 382. 1969. - Percheron, A., Bibl. entom. 65-66. 1837. - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 17, 21-22, 163, 260, 264. 1981. - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 324-325. 1840. - Woodward, B.B., *in* Hist. coll. BM(NH): 48. 1904 (orig. drawings). #### Composite works - (1) With F.P. Nodder, *The naturalist's miscellany*, 24 vols., London \[1789-\] 1790-1813; see C.D. Sherborn, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. ser. 6. 15: 375. 1895 (dates) and Lisney (1960) for a bibliographical description; general indexes, London 1813, 26 p. (mainly zoological) (IDC 2418). - (2) With J.F. Miller, *Cimelia phys*. 1796, see TL-2/6033. - (3) Descriptions to *pl. 16, 17, 18* in J. Sowerby, *Engl. bot.* 1791.