CuthbertsonWR

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Cuthbertson, Walter R.

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

career:

A surveyor in Queensland, who in 1886 was instructed to survey Port Moresby and environs, SE. New Guinea. In 1887 leader of an Australian expedition to British New Guinea,¹ equipped by the Vict. Branch of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. of Australasia; W.A. Sayer accompanied the expedition as a naturalist.

Dendrobium cuthbertsonii was named after him.

\Collecting localities:

1887. SE. New Guinea, Papua. cf. sub W.A. Sayer.

collections:

The above-mentioned plant was collected by him on Mt Obree; other plants too, partly with Sayer (see there).² In ? Herb. Melbourne [MEL].

literature:

(1) W.R. Cuthbertson: ‘Explorations of the Highlands of South-Eastern British New Guinea (July to October 1887)’ (Transact. & Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. Australasia Vict. Br. 5, 1888, p. 2, 7-12); ‘Journal of the Royal Geographic Society’s exploration to the highlands of British New Guinea’ l.c. p. 13-43).
(2) cf. F. von Mueller, in Transact. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 24, 1887, p. 174-175; in Vict. Naturalist 4, 1887, p. 110-112, 121; in Descr. Not. Pap. Pl., pt 9, 1890.

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Cuthbertson, Walter R.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: A surveyor in Queensland, who in 1886 was instructed to survey Port Moresby and environs, SE. New Guinea. In 1887 leader of an Australian expedition to British New Guinea,¹ equipped by the Vict. Branch of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. of Australasia; W.A. Sayer accompanied the expedition as a naturalist. Dendrobium cuthbertsonii was named after him.
	\Collecting localities: 1887. SE. New Guinea, Papua. cf. sub W.A. Sayer.
	collections: The above-mentioned plant was collected by him on Mt Obree; other plants too, partly with Sayer (see there).² In ? Herb. Melbourne [MEL].
	literature: (1) W.R. Cuthbertson: ‘Explorations of the Highlands of South-Eastern British New Guinea (July to October 1887)’ (Transact. & Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. Australasia Vict. Br. 5, 1888, p. 2, 7-12); ‘Journal of the Royal Geographic Society’s exploration to the highlands of British New Guinea’ l.c. p. 13-43). (2) cf. F. von Mueller, in Transact. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 24, 1887, p. 174-175; in Vict. Naturalist 4, 1887, p. 110-112, 121; in Descr. Not. Pap. Pl., pt 9, 1890.
	biographical data: Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.