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Mr Thomas Whitelegge (17/5/1850-4/8/1927)<>
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Whitelegge was born in Stockport, Cheshire, and died in Sydney, New South Wales. He was a workingman naturalist and became secretary and president of the Ashton-under-Lyne Linnaean Botanical Society. He had a herbarium. He corresponded with Charles Darwin. He went to Australia in 1883 and became a staff member of the Australian Museum in Sydney, until 1908. He was an authority on mosses and ferns and wrote Census Muscorum Australiensium, together with W. W. Watts.
An interesting letter from Whitelegge in Sydney to John Whitehead, of the The Ashton Linnean Botanical Society, is described in a blog from Herbology Manchester.
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Most of Whitelegge's sheets have been written by Painter but this is an example of his own hand. |
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Whitelegge seems to spell his name differently on different sheets |
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Search for specimens collected by Thomas Whitelegge.