Biographical entry Fitzgerald, William Vincent ( - 1929)

Summary

William Vincent Fitzgerald was a member of the 1903 Western Australian Royal Commission on Forests, chairman of the State Forests Advisory Board 1904 and a member of the Kimberley Trigonometric Survey 1905. He died while exploring the Bismark Ranges in Papua.

Details

Events

1904

Taxonomy event - Description of eucalyptus diptera Andrews (1904), Fitzgerald collected the type

1904

Taxonomy event - Described the eucalyptus accedens W.V. Fitzg. (1904)

1912

Taxonomy event - Description of eucalyptus pyriformis Turcz. var. elongata Maiden (1912) (= E. pyriformis Turcz. (1849)), Fitzgerald was collector of the type

1915

Taxonomy event - Described the eucalyptus houseana W.V. Fitzg. Ex Maiden (1915)

1923

Taxonomy event - Described the eucalyptus collina W.V. Fitzg. (1904)

1934

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii Blakely (1934)

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

• William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records, 1892 - 1894, MSS M54; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Western Australia Herbarium

• William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records, 1905 - 1906, 58(044) Fit; Western Australia Herbarium. Details

Published resources

Books

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts : short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details

Online Resources

• 'Fitzgerald William Vincent (-19290806)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476308. Details