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58773762 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
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  • Name.
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  • Thomas Whitelegge (1850-1927), naturalist, was born on 7 August 1850 at Stockport, Cheshire. As a botanist, he was an authority on mosses and produced a catalogue of the frondose mosses of Australia. As a zoologist, he wrote on many invertebrate phyla: Protozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, Annelida, Crustacea and Echinodermata. Between 1897 and 1907 he published important papers on the invertebrates of Funafuti, on those of Port Jackson, and on the crustaceans and sponges collected by the Thetis expedition. His most important work was the 'List of the marine and fresh-water Invertebrates of Port Jackson and neighborhood': the Royal Society of New South Wales published it in its Journal and Proceedings in 1889 and awarded him a special medal. His descriptions of the benthic environment of the inner port are still used as a base line for measuring environmental change.
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography cited 9/08/2023 https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitelegge-thomas-9081
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  • (AU-CaAIA)XX33952
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  • AIAS NAMU
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  • anuc