Henry Willey
Henry Willey (born July 10, 1824 in Geneseo , New York , † March 15, 1907 in South Weymouth , Massachusetts ) was an American botanist , ( lichenologist ), journalist ( New Bedford Daily Evening Standard ) and lawyer. Its botanical author abbreviation is Willey .
Willey first worked as a teacher in Mattapoisett , Massachusetts, later he studied law with his father and was admitted to the Supreme Court of New York in 1848 . He worked as a lawyer in his native Geneseo and in Spencerport , New York. In 1851 he moved to Massachusetts, returned to teaching, and eventually settled in New Bedford , where he became editor of The Standard there, a position he held until his retirement in 1900.
Willey received his training in lichenology from Edward Tuckerman , whose last writings he edited. Between 1867 and 1898 Willey published numerous papers on the lichens of his homeland and described 26 new species . Part of the first descriptions of Tuckerman can also be attributed to Willey. Willey corresponded with George Perkins Clinton , Mary L. Wilson and Charles Peck . His botanical collection comprised approximately 10,000 objects and was sold to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC .
In 1889, Willey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The genus Willeya and the species Pyrenula willeyana , Lecanora willeyi , Ramalina willeyi and Thelephora willeyi are named after Henry Willey .
Willey was considered suspicious and strange, he dealt almost exclusively with books and botanical collections. He had been married to Maria Cowing since 1864 and the couple had a son.
literature
- Willey, Henry . In: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , 1888.
- Willey, Henry. In: The National cyclopaedia of American biography , 1898.
- OE Jennings: Henry Willey. In: The Bryologist. 17, 1914, p. 75, doi: 10.2307 / 3237430 .
Web links
Wikispecies: Henry Willey - Species Directory- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Henry Willey at the IPNI
- Willey, Henry in the Index of Botanists (harvard.edu)
- The Lichen Flora at mobot.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willey, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lichenologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneseo , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1907 |
| Place of death | South Weymouth , Massachusetts |