> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 230](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259734) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2765-1) LSID 2765-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167753) QID Q6167753 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fitzgerald, William Vincent|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Fitzgerald, William Vincent (1867-1929), Australian botanist, forester and prospector, born 21 Jul 1867 "on the gold fields at Mangana" nr. Ben Lomond, Tasmania, Denedin School of Mines, Tasmania ca. 1883, began corresponding with and sending Tasmanian plant specimens to F. von Mueller in Melbourne ca. 1890, led exped. to New Guinea to re port on geological and vegetational features 1895-1896, member of the Western Australian Royal Commission on Forests 1903, Chairman of the State Forests Advisory Board 1904, Kimberley Trigonometric exped. 1905, exped. supported by Minister of Lands to the Kimberley region 1906, active service in W.W.-I and wounded, died 6 Aug 1929 of black water fever while on an exploring exped. on the Daru River in New Guinea. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Fitzg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Fitzg.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PERTH|PERTH]], additional material [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CANB|CANB]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection HO|HO]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]]. – Mss., incl. diary of expeds. to the Kimberley region, held by PERTH; letters to F. von Mueller at [[Collection MEL|MEL]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 202; Barnhart 1: 547; BL 1: 75-76, 296; Hortus 3: 1193; HR; IH 2: 199; Kew 2: 277; SK 1: 167, 5: cclxxvii; TL-2/1: 842; Tucker 3: 107; Urban-Berl. p. 346. #### Biofile - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 232; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 295; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 404. - Hall, N., 1978. Botanists of the Eucalypts: 52. - Hall, N., 1993. Suppl. no. 1 to Botanists of Australian Acacias (CSIRO 1984): 7. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond (eds.), 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 80. - Maslin, B.R. & R.S. Cowan. 1994. Nuytsia 9: 387-398. \[typification W.V. Fitzgerald's *Acacia*\] - Orchard, A.E., 1999. A history of systematic botany in Australia, *In*, Fl. Australia, ed. 2, 1: 45. - Short, P.S., 1990. Newslett. Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. 63: 5. - Short, P.S. (ed.), 1990. Hist. systematic bot. Australasia: 321. (index) - Short, P.S., 1993. Newslett. Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. 75: 1-6. - White, C.T., 1929. J. Bot. 67: 309. - Willis, J.H. et al., 1986. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 12: 35. ### Publications ##### n.34.677. Descriptions **Title** *Descriptions* of some *new species* of *west Australian plants*... \[Sydney (F. Cunninghame & Co.)\] 1903. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Jul 1903 (in journal), p. 104-113. *Copy*: HH (incomplete, p. 113 wanting) (detached?). – Reprinted (detached?) and to be cited from Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 28(1): 104-113. 1903. *Note*: Communicated by J\[oseph\]. H\[enry\]. Maiden (1859-1925), see TL-2/3: 249-255 and IH 2: 492. ##### n.34.678. botany **Title** The *botany* of the *Kimberleys*, North-West Australia... Reprinted from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia... 1918. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1918 (date on p. \[1\], read 1 Feb 1918), p. \[1\]-123. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), L. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 3: 102-224. 1918. *Index*: Kenneally, Kevin F., 1986. Newlett. Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. 46: 1-7.