What is George Shaw?
{{Infobox scientist |name = George Shaw |image =George_Kearsley_Shaw.jpg |image_size =150px |caption = George Shaw |birth_date = 10 December 1751 |birth_place = [[Bierton]], [[Buckinghamshire]] |death_date = 22 July 1813 |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[England|English]] |ethnicity = |field = [[botany]] |work_institutions = [[Oxford University]] |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''George Shaw''' (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an [[England|English]] [[botanist]] and [[zoologist]]. Shaw published one of the first English descriptions of several common [[Australia]]n animals. His book was called ''Zoology of New Holland'' which was released in 1794. He was the first scientist to examine a [[platypus]]. He released a description about the animal on his book ''The Naturalist's Miscellany'' in 1799. He became the first to do so. In [[herpetology]] he described a lot of new species of [[reptiles]] and [[amphibians]].<ref>The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} == Books == *Mullens and Swann - ''A Bibliography of British Ornithology'' (1917) *William T. Stearn - ''The Natural History Museum at South Kensington'' {{ISBN|0-434-73600-7}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, George}} [[Category:1751 births]] [[Category:1813 deaths]] [[Category:English botanists]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society|Shaw, George]] [[Category:People from Buckinghamshire]] [[fa:جرج شاو]]