Davies, Richard H. (fl. 1830s - 1887)

"The Rev. (sic) Richard H. Davies has discovered many curious and some new plants on the East Coast of Tasmania since the year 1833, which were communicated to Mr. Archer."

Richard Davies was brother of Archdeacon Davies..He contributed papers to the Royal Society, Tasmania;,on the Natural History of the Mutton Birds, on the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, and the Rapacity of Tasmanian fish.

The following plant, Phebalium daviesi, Hook. f. =P. glandulosum, Hook. var. daviesi was collected by R. H. Davies, Esq. Herb. Archer, on the East Coast, near St. Helen's Bay. See Hooker "Fl. Tas." ii., 358.

Source: Maiden, J.H. (1909) Records of Tasmanian botanists. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for the year 1909. pp. 9-29.