Weymouth, William Anderson   (1841 - 1928)

Born Launceston, Tasmania, 24 March 1841; died Hobart, Tasmania, 24 May 1928.

He worked as an insurance assessor with the National Mutual Insurance Company.
He was also Deacon Of The Davey St Congregational Church Launcheston.

In 1887 he began collecting mosses and lichens, sending them to several European bryologists including Antonio Jatta in Italy, and Viktor Brotherus in Finland for naming, as well as distributing sets to herbaria via Emile Levier in 1907.

He published a number of papers on Tasmanian bryophytes in 1893 and 1894-1895, including "Some Additions to the Moss Flora of Tasmania" (Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1894).

The genus Weymouthia Broth. commemorates him.

Source: Extracted from: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000336494
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weymouth
Portrait Photo: made by Crawford, 62 Murray Street, Hobart, extracted from Wikipedia.

Collecting localities for 'Weymouth, W.A.' from AVH (2022)

Data from 3,433 specimens