William Vincent Fitzgerald

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William Vincent Fitzgerald (1906)

William Vincent Fitzgerald (born July 21, 1867 in Mangana, Tasmania , † August 6, 1929 on the Daru River , Papua New Guinea ) was an Australian prospector and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " W. Fitzg. "

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William Vincent Fitzgerald was born in Mangana, Tasmania. Fitzgerald learned the trade of forester . In the years 1892-1894 he collected plants in Tasmania and corresponded with Ferdinand von Mueller about their destination .

In 1903 he became a member of the "Western Australian Royal Commission on Forests", in 1904 chairman of the "State Forest Advisory Board" and in 1905 a member of the "Kimberley Trigonometric Survey". He undertook his most important excursions in the Kimberleys in 1905 and 1906 and described five new plant genera and 210 new plant species . The results of his excursions were published in 1916 and 1918.

On an expedition to explore the "Bismark Mountains" in Papua , he died on August 6, 1929 on the Fly River (then "Daru River") at the age of 62.

Publications (selection)

  • Diary of Expeditions to the Kimberley 1905-1906 . Part 1.
  • Letters to M. Koch 1905-1908 .
  • The Botany of the Kimberleys, North-West Australia . Ed. State Library of Victoria. 1918.
  • BR Maslin, RS Cowan, WV Fitzgerald (posthumous): William Vincent Fitzgerald's species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae): typification of names . Western Australian Herbarium 1994

Honors

In honor of William Vincent Fitzgerald, Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii Blakely was named after him in 1934 , as was Brachychiton fitzgeraldianus Guymer in 1989 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fitzgerald, William V. (1867–1929) . Biography. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Australian National Herbarium, Canberra. November 13, 2007 ( Memento of May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 16, 2013
  2. ^ A b c Fitzgerald, William Vincent (–1929) . Biographical Entry. Encyclopedia of Australian Science. ( Memento of August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 16, 2013
  3. ^ A b Fitzgerald, William Vincent (–1929) . Biographies - Resources. National Library of Australia . Retrieved May 16, 2013
  4. ^ GP Guymer: A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae) . Australian Systematic Botany. CSIRO 1988 . Retrieved May 16, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Fitzgerald, William Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Mangana, Tasmania, Australia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1929
Place of death Fly River , Papua New Guinea