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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001931b.htm person Shaw Alfred Eland AACR2 1861 16 June 1931 Place of Birth Carlow, Ireland Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Physician Entomologist 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. 1883 1931? Award - Fellow, Entomological Society of London 1892 1892 Education - Licentiate, Royal College of Physicians, London 1892 1892 Education - Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) 1910 1910 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1922 1931 Career position - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales Australian Museum (1827 - )

Shaw donated his card index of Blattidae and scientific library

 Queensland Museum

Shaw donated a collection of Blattidae (cockroach) specimens

 Linnean Society of New South Wales (1874 - )

Member 1922 - 1931

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 Shaw, Alfred Eland (-1931)

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 'Shaw, Alfred Eland', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Shaw, Alfred Eland Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Journal Article: Dr Alfred Eland Shaw M., A. [ie Musgrave, Anthony] Dr Alfred Eland Shaw 1931 Australian Museum magazine 4 7 232