Person
Webster, Leonard Clarke (1870 - 1942)
- Born
- 1870
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia - Died
- 26 September 1942
West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
Leonard Webster contributed Western Australian plant and reptile specimens to the British Museum (Natural History) and Australian Museum between 1903 and 1938. His records, which date from 1859-1941, include notebooks with medical cures, treatments and ointment ingredients.
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Chronology
- 1915
- Taxonomy event - Webster was honoured with Eucalyptus websterana Maiden, of which Webster also collected the type
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6525180. Details
- 'Webster, Leonard Clarke', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473793. Details
See also
- 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), 101 pp. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018