> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 789](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333928) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9967-1) LSID 9967-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609287) QID Q21609287 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spicer, William Webb (1820-1879), British clergyman and botanist; M.A. Oxford 1848; rector at Itchen Abbas, Kants., England 1850-1874; in Tasmania from 1874-1878. **Abbreviated name**: *Spicer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spicer*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WTR|WTR]] (8-750); other material at [[Collection BIRM|BIRM]], [[Collection BNS|BNS]], [[Collection BRISTM|BRISTM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FRS|FRS]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection LIVU|LIVU]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 309 (d. 28 Apr 1879); BB p. 284-285; BL 1: 86, 319; BM 5: 1990; Clokie p. 247; CSP 8: 989, 11: 463; Desmond p. 577; HR; Jackson p. 402, 608; LS 25590; Rehder 1: 506; TL-2/6659; Tucker 1: 663. #### Biofile - Anon., Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 1878: 4-5. 1879 (tribute), 1879: 11. 1880 (d.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 356.8. 1980. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 248. 1984. - Maiden, J.H., Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1909: 27 (reprint, Rec. Tasman. bot. 1909, p. 19). #### Composite works Translator English edition of J. Nave, *Anleit. Einsamm.* 1864, TL-2/6659, as *Handy-book coll*. 1869; ed. 2. 1882, ed. 3. 1884, ed. 4. 1905 (*Collector's handbook of Algae*). ### Publications ##### n.12.610. A handbook of the plants of Tasmania **Title** *A handbook of the plants of Tasmania*... Hobart Town (J. Walch and Sons) 1878. 16-mo. **Abbreviated title**: *Handb. pl. Tasmania*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1878 (p. vii: Mar 1878; J. Bot. Nov 1878; Bot. Zeit. 6 Dec 1878), p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-160, *3 pl. Copies*: G, HH, MO, NSW, NY.