nuc87-39866: His Australian rain-forest trees, 1981 (hdg. on NcRS rept.: Francis, W. D. (William Douglas); usage: W.D. Francis)
LC data base, 3/9/88 (hdg.: Francis, William Douglas; usage: W.D. Francis)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria website 6 December 2022: (Francis, William Douglas (1889-1959). Born in Bega, New South Wales, on 6 March 1889, died at Kangaroo Point, Queensland, on 2 January 1959. Appointed Assistant Government Botanist at the Queensland Herbarium in 1919, and promoted to Government Botanist in 1950 on the death of C.T.White, retiring in 1954. Perhaps best known for writing two editions of Australian Rainforest Trees (1929, 1951).)https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/francis-william.html