William Weymouth


William Anderson Weymouth was an amateur botanist. He worked as an insurance assessor with the National Mutual Insurance Company. In 1887 he began collecting mosses and lichens, sending them to several European bryologists including Antonio Jatta in Italy, and Viktor Brotherus in Finland. Weymouth issued the exsiccata Musci Tasmaniae exsiccati. Jatta named a species of lichen in honour of Weymouth called Ochrolechia weymouthii, and Brotherus named the moss genus Weymouthia. Weymouth published several papers on mosses from Tasmania.

Publications

He published a number of papers on Tasmanian bryophytes in 1893 and 1894–1895, including: