Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |
Born in Berlin, Germany, on 17 July 1854, died in Pemberton, Western Australia, on 1 April 1925.
Emigrated to Australia in 1878, and worked for many years (c. 1888-1901)
on a sheep station at Mount Lyndhurst, South Australia. Moved to Western Australia
in 1904, where he was employed in saw milling work. A prolific collector in
his spare time, he amassed large numbers of collections from the mid-north
of South Australia and from Western Australia.
Ten sets of the Mount Lyndhurst
specimens were sent to Maiden at NSW who used them as exchange with other
herbaria. Seven sets from Mount Lyndhurst and 100 Western Australian plants
were sent to AD. About 200-300 sheets of Western Australian collections were
bought by MEL in about 1896.
Audas (1929) credits him with discovering nine
new species in South Australia, and 33 species plus 14 varieties from Western
Australia.
His main collections are at AD, MEL and NSW, with smaller sets
at many herbaria including A, B, BP, BREM, BRI, CANB, DBN, E, G, GH, HBG,
HO, K, L, M, MIN, MO, P, PERTH and VT. See Audas (1929) for an exhaustive
list of institutions receiving specimens.
Source; Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic
Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed.,
ABRS. [consult for source references]
Portrait Photo: Google Images web, 15/9/2021
Data from 7,249 specimens