George Shaw

George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. He became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University and keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum in addition to being a co-founder of the Linnean Society. Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland" . He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.