Tadgell, Alfred James (1863 - 1949)

Alfred Tadgell was one of the early members of the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria. He made many collecting excursions into Victoria's mountain country, building on the work of Stirling, Mueller, Walter and others. Using a recent list of the alpine flora (Ewart & Audas 1910) compiled from the collections in the National Herbarium as his basic reference, Tadgell increased the number of species known from the area by 30 per cent in little more than ten years (Tadgell 1922). He published a number of papers on his collections, including the first paper to be devoted exclusively to the flora of Mt Bogong (Tadgell 1924).
 

Extracted from: Flora of Victoria, Vol. 1, Chap 5, 'Botanical Exploration of Victoria', by J.H.Willis & Helen M. Cohn (1993). [consult for source references]

Collecting localities for 'Tadgell, A.J.' from AVH (2021)

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