page_title: Frederick John Freshwater Shaw
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick John Freshwater Shaw
caption_attribution_description: Fifteenth Meeting of the Board of Indian Agriculture 1929 at Pusa Fourth row. 1. C. A. Maclean. 2. Col. Matson. 3. W. MacRae. 4. Col. G. Mellor, 5. F. J. F. Shaw. 6. Churchill. 7. P. B. Richards. 8. A. M. Ulvi. 9. J. S. Garewal. 10. F. D. Odell. 11. R. C. Woodford. 12. C. V. Sane. 13. A. K. B. Cazi. 14. P. V. Isaac. Third row. 1. Afzal Hussain. 2. J. N. Chakravarty. 3. G. P. Hector. 4. F. J. Plymen. 5. W. Sayer. 6. J. H. Ritchie. 7. S. M. A. Shah. 8. D. P. Johnston. 9. T. F. Quirke. 10. W. Harris. 11. P. T. Saunders. 12. N. N. Bose. 13. M. S. A. Hydari. 14. J. N. Sen. 15. F. J. Warth. Second row. 1. G. S. Henderson. 2. D. R. Sethi. 3. A. P. Cuff. 4. H. P. Pandya. 5. W. Smith. 6. Z. R. Kothawala. 7. R. W. Littlewood- 8. Charan Sisoh. 9. Harchand Singh. 10. Major P. B. Riley. 11. P. J. Kerr. 12. J. H. Walton. 13. P. B. Vagholkar. 14. Rao Bahadur B. Viswanath 15. C. Mayadas. First row (Sitting on Chairs.) 1. W. Burns. 2. A. McKerral. 3. W. Roberts. 4. B. C. Burt. 5. P. H. Carpenter. 6. Sir Frank Noyce. 7. Dewan Bahadur Sir T. "Vijayaraghavacharya. 8. W. H. Harrison. 9. D. Milne. 10. G. R. Hilson. 11. K. Hewlett. 12. G. K. Devadhar. 13. F. Ware.
context_page_description: Frederick John Freshwater Shaw was a British botanist and mycologist who worked briefly in India where he died of heat stroke during a trip to Agra.
  He joined as an Imperial Mycologist in 1910 and studied plant pathology at Pusa and at Coimbatore. He also served as the Imperial Economic Botanist and was made a director of the Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research in 1934, a point when the institute was shifted from Bihar to Delhi after an earthquake.
  He described several species of fungi and worked on plant anatomy as well as research techniques including statistics. Among his works was a " A Handbook of Statistics For Use in Plant Breeding And Agricultural Problems".
context_section_description: Frederick John Freshwater Shaw (16 December 1885 - 29 July 1936) was a British botanist and mycologist who worked briefly in India where he died of heat stroke during a trip to Agra.
  He joined as an Imperial Mycologist in 1910 and studied plant pathology at Pusa and at Coimbatore. He also served as the Imperial Economic Botanist and was made a director of the Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research in 1934, a point when the institute was shifted from Bihar to Delhi after an earthquake. 
  He described several species of fungi and worked on plant anatomy as well as research techniques including statistics. Among his works was a " A Handbook of Statistics For Use in Plant Breeding And Agricultural Problems" (1936).
caption: F.J.F. Shaw at a meeting in Pusa 1929.
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