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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J., Moje, C. & Walsh, N. updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000408b.htm person Fitzgerald William Vincent AACR2 21 July 1867 6 August 1929 Place of Birth Mungana, Tasmania, Australia Place of Death Daru River, New Guinea Prospector Botanical collector Botanist William Fitzgerald had a varied career, ranging from botanical collecting to prospecting in Tasmania and Western Australia. He moved to Western Australia in 1898. In later years he held several Western Australian Government positions. These included Chairman of the Forests Advisory Board of Western Australia (1904) and naturalist to the trigonometric survey expedition to the Kimberley region, led by Charles Crossland, in the Kimberley region (1905). Further exploration of the Fitzroy, Ord and King Rivers in search of arable land followed in 1906 at the direction of the Minister for Lands. Results from these expeditions were published in 1918. Fitzgerald described five new genera and over 210 species from Western Australia, included eucalypts and 23 species of Acacia. He was also interested in orchids. Fitzgerald sent plant material he collected to Ferdinand von Mueller and Joseph Maiden. A significant collection of his material is held by the Western Australian Herbarium. Fitzgerald died while exploring the Bismarck Ranges in Papua. 1903 1903 Career position - Member, Royal Commission on Forests, Western Australia 1904 1904 Career position - Chairman, Forests Board of Western Australia 1904 1904 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus diptera C.R.P.Andrews. Fitzgerald collected the type 1904 1904 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus accedens W.Fitzg. 1905 1905 Career position - Naturalist, trigonometric survey of the Kimberley regio under leader Charles Crossland 1912 1912 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus pyriformis Turcz. var. elongata Maiden (= E. pyriformis Turcz. (1849)): Fitzgerald collected the type 1915 1915 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus houseana W.Fitzg. ex Maiden 1916 1917 Military service - Served with the Australian Imperial Force 1923 1923 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus collina W.Fitzg. 1934 1934 Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii Blakely was named for Fitzgerald Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925)

Fitzgerald sent botanical specimens to Maiden

 Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)

Fitzgerald sent botanical specimens to Mueller

 Western Australian Herbarium, Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (1929 - )

Many of Fitzgerald's specimens are in the Herbarium

 National Herbarium of New South Wales, Colony and State of New South Wales (1896 - )

The Herbarium has a collection of Fitzgerald's specimens

Wikidata

 Fitzgerald, William Vincent (-19290806)

Trove

 'Fitzgerald, William Vincent', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Fitzgerald, William Vincent Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: New Australian plants Fitzgerald, W. V. New Australian plants 1912 Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 50 18-24 Journal Article: Additions to the West Australian flora, 1: species hitherto undescribed Fitzgerald, W. V. Additions to the West Australian flora, 1: species hitherto undescribed 1904 Journal of the Western Australian Natural History Society 1 3-36 Journal Article: The botany of the Kimberleys, northwest Australia Fitzgerald, William Vincent The botany of the Kimberleys, northwest Australia 1918 Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3 102-224 Journal Article: William V. Fitzgerald: miscellaneous notes on his NW Australian collections, publications and manuscripts Short, P. S. William V. Fitzgerald: miscellaneous notes on his NW Australian collections, publications and manuscripts 1993 Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter 75 1-6 Journal Article: An index to W. V. Fitzgerald's annotated species list published in "The botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia" Kenneally, K. F. An index to W. V. Fitzgerald's annotated species list published in "The botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia" 1986 Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter 46 1-7 Journal Article: William Vincent Fitzgerald's species of Acacia (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae) : typification of names Maslin, B. R. and Cowan, R. S. William Vincent Fitzgerald's species of <span style="font-style:italic">Acacia</span> (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae) : typification of names 1994 Nuytsia 9 3 387-98 Journal Article: John Staer (1850 - 1933): the patronym behind Eucalyptus staeri, the Albany Blackbutt Ludewig, Alexandra John Staer (1850 - 1933): the patronym behind <span style="font-style:italic">Eucalyptus staeri</span>, the Albany Blackbutt 2023 Historical Records of Australian Science 34 2 123-35 Book: 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 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 Melbourne CSIRO 1978

Source used to compile entry

 Resource: Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Australian National Botanic Gardens 2012 Resource: Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Fagg, Murray Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH) 2010 William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records Western Australia Herbarium William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records 58(044) Fit 1905 - 1906 Diary of expeditions to the Kimberley 1905-6 [1 volume]. Letters to M. Koch 1905-8 [14 pages, 58(044) Fit]. William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records National Herbarium, Melbourne William Vincent Fitzgerald - Records MSS M54 1892 - 1894 Letters 1892-94 from Fitzgerald in Tasmania to F. Mueller about Tasmanian plants and their identification. Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes