Robert Walter Campbell Shelford
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Robert Walter Campbell Shelford (3 August 1872 – 22 June 1912), was a British museum administrator and naturalist, with a special interest in entomology and insect mimicry. He was born in Singapore and educated at King’s College London and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was Curator of the Sarawak Museum at Kuching, Sarawak, from 1897 to 1905, after which he was Assistant Curator at the Oxford University Museum. Shelford married in 1908, only four years before his death at the age of 39 in Margate. Plants named after him include Dischidia shelfordii Pears.
[edit] Publications
As well as articles in scientific journals, he authored the posthumously published book:
- Shelford, Robert W.C. (1916). A Naturalist in Borneo. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd: London.
[edit] References
- National Herbarium of the Netherlands – Robert Shelford. Accessed 15 January 2007
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