Hugh Shaw MacKee

Hugh Shaw MacKee studied at Queen's University Belfast and University of Oxford. The recorded working language is English and French. Places of work recorded in the authority are New Caledonia and Australia. Residence is recorded at Nouméa. Employment is recorded with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

• Name — Hugh Shaw MacKee • Born — 4 October 1912 • Birthplace — Clough, Northern Ireland • Died — 14 February 1995 • Place of death — Noumea, New Caledonia • Citizenship — Australian • Education — University of Belfast (1935), Oxford University (1938) • Fields — Botany • Known for — Bryophytes, fungi, spermatophytes, palms • Illustration — Collection data for Hugh Shaw MacKee from AVH

Hugh Shaw McKee (later Hugh Shaw MacKee) earned a Bachelor of Botany in 1935 from the University of Belfast, and his doctorate in Plant Physiology in 1938 from Oxford University.

From 1935 to 1938 he worked in London for the South African Co-operative Deciduous Fruit Exchange. He left Europe in 1938 for Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia, to work in the Queensland Department of Agriculture. In 1940 he was recruited by the CSIRO and with the defeat of the Japanese in New Guinea, he was seconded to the Tropical Scientific Section of the Australian Army to work in New Guinea. From 1954 to 1956 he was seconded to the South Pacific Commission with headquarters in Noumea, from where he made many collecting expeditions (Samoa, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. He was seconded to the FAO in Rangoon, Burma. Still employed by CSIRO, he collected for nine months in tropical America. (Possibly) later, he was worked in the Botany Department of Sydney University. In 1954-55 he went to New Guinea to look into food and nutrition problems. In 1964 he was recruited by the CNRS to work in New Caledonia, where he remained for the rest of his life, collecting and working, and it was there he changed his name from McKee to MacKee to make it easier for French speakers to know how to say his name.

• Morat, P., Veillon, J.M., & MacKee, H.S. (1984). Floristic relationships of New Caledonian rain forest phanerogams (pp. 71–128). Association of Systematics Collections and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.PDF Telopea 2(6): 631-679 (1986) • Jaffré, T., Morat, P., Veillon, J. M., & MacKee, H.S. (1987). Changements dans la végétation de la Nouvelle-Calédonie au cours du Tertiaire: la végétation et la flore des roches ultrabasiques. Adansonia, 4, 365-391. • Morat, P., Jaffré, T., Veillon, J.M., & MacKee, H.S. (1986). Affinités floristiques et considérations sur l’origine des maquis miniers de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Adansonia, 2, 133-182.

The following is established of origins and background. MacKee died in 1995 at Nouméa. It is also recorded that hugh Shaw MacKee was born in 1912 at Clough.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation biochemist. It is also recorded that hugh Shaw MacKee is recorded with the occupation editor. The record continues: hugh Shaw MacKee is recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded with the gender male. Born on 1 January 1912. The record continues: hugh Shaw MacKee died on 1 January 1995. It is also recorded that hugh Shaw MacKee worked at New Caledonia. MacKee worked at Australia. It is also recorded that hugh Shaw MacKee is recorded as human. The record continues: hugh Shaw MacKee is recorded with the occupation botanist. The same evidence establishes that hugh Shaw MacKee is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded with the occupation botanical collector.

• 1985. Les Plantes introduites et cultivees en Nouvelle-Caledonie: supplement a la Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances (volume hors-serie) Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle • 1984. Morat, P., J.-M. Veillon, J.-M., Mackee, H.S. (Conference Proceedings) Floristic relationships of New Caledonian rain forest phanerogams, Association of Systematics Collections and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. • 1981 (with M.E. MacKee) E. Vieillard et E. Deplanche, deux grands botanistes collecteurs en Nouvelle-Calédonie, • 1969. A list of vascular plants occurring on Black Mountain and environs: Canberra, A.C.T. M. Gray and H.S. McKee. Melbourne, C.S.I.R.O. • 1967. Aubréville, A., Leroy, J.F., Morat, P., & MacKee, H.S. Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances. • 1962. (as Hugh Shaw McKee) Nitrogen metabolism in plants. Oxford, Clarendon Press. • 1954. Australian and New Zealand botany, J.McLuckie and H.S.McKee. Sydney: Associated General Publications.

(incomplete list) • Terminalia cherrieri MacKee Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia Sér. 4, 6(2): 116. 1984 • Grevillea evansiana MacKee Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 78(3-4) 1953 • Cyclophyllum jasminifolium Guillaumin & MacKee—Cah. Pacifique 9: 54. 1966 • Microsemma calophylla Guillaumin & MacKee—Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. Bot. viii. 127 (1959) (synonym of Solmsia calophylla Baill. Adansonia 10: 38 (1871)