WILLIAM ALFRED WEBER: Professor of Natural History and Curator of the Herbarium Emeritus, University of Colorado Museum, Campus Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309

Born: New York, New York, November 16, 1918

Education: B.S. 1940, Iowa State College

M.S. 1942, Washington State University

Ph.D. 1946, Washington State University

Married: Aug. 5, 1940, to Selma Ruth Herrmann ISC '39. Three children, Linna, Heather, Erica.

Instructor, Biology Dept., Univ. of Colorado, 1946

Assistant Professor, 1953

Associate Professor, 1956 (General Botany, General Biology, Plant Morphology, Plant Anatomy, Elementary Plant Taxonomy, Advanced Plant Taxonomy, Families of Flowering Plants, Evolution, Plant Geography, Bryophyte and Lichen Taxonomy)

Professor of Natural History, Univ. of Colorado Museum, 1962-1990

Professor Emeritus, 1990-

Languages: Speaks German, Spanish, French, Swedish; reading ability in related Scandinavian languages, Dutch, Italian, Russian; writes scientific Latin.

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

International Society of Plant Taxonomists

California Botanical Society

Amer. Institute of Biological Sciences

Amer. Bryological and Lichenological Society

Botanical Society of Lund

British Lichen Society

Swedish Botanical Society

International Association of Bryologists

Linnean Society of London

(former memberships):

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science

Botanical Society of America

Society for the Study of Evolution

Sigma Xi

New York, New Jersey, Maine, 1932-36

Massachusetts, Berkshires, 1938

Iowa, 1938-40

Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1941

Eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho, 1941-44

Columbia River Gorge, Blue Mountains, Oregon, 1944-45

Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska, 1956

Sweden, Norway & Denmark, 1957-58 (NSF Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship)

Finland and North Norway, 1961 (International Phytogeographic Excursion, invitational)

Mexico, 1962

Galápagos Islands, 1964 (Galápagos International Scientific Project, invitational), 1971-2, 1976, 1983-4, 1987

Canadian Arctic (XI International Botanical Congress expedition, invitational), 1965

Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands (auspices of Univ. of California-Irvine, invitational)

Northern Baja California, 1966, joint Swedish-American expedition

Guadalupe Island, Mexico, 1963 (Scripps Oceanographic Expedition, invitational)

French Alps, Switzerland, Eastern Pyrenees, 1966 (International Phytogeographical Excursion, invitational)

Australia-New Guinea, 1967-68 (Australian National University Fellowship)

Western United States, 1965 (leader, International Botanical Congress Field Trip No. 1)

Greece and Crete, 1971 (International Phytogeographic Excursion, invitational)

Chile, 1976 (International Biome Program)

Chihuahua, Mexico, 1977 (Ethnobotanical studies with R. A. Bye)

Peru, 1978

USSR, Altai Mountains, 1978 (American Soviet Coöperative Program, invitational)

Greece and Turkey, 1979 (as Scientific resource for Amer. Museum of Natural History tour)

Canary Islands, 1980 (as botanical resource for student tour, Ärzt-Medizin Hochschule, Hannover)

Nepal, 1980 (American Women's Climbing Expedition to Dhaulagiri I, invitational); 1989 (Arun Valley), 1991 (Langtang Himal)

Australia: Lord Howe Island, 1981 (13th International Botanical Congress)

Japan, 1984 (International Phytogeographical Excursion, invitational)

Galápagos Islands, 1987 (conference on Botanical Conservation April)

USSR, 1987 (Altai and Sayan Mountains areas Invitational, Akademia Nauk USSR), July-August.

Scientist, Galápagos International Scientific Project, 1964

Honorary President, Colorado Native Plants Society

University of Colorado Centennial Medal, l976

Citation for "Distinguished Work as a Scientist in the Public Interest", Wright-Ingraham Institute, 1981

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1984.

Robert L. Stearns Award, Univ. of Colorado, 1986

Iowa State University Citation of Merit Award, 1987

City of Boulder Open Space Dept., Outstanding Volunteer: Open Space taxonomic authority and tall grass prairie research, Oct. 1988

Edgar T. Wherry Award, North American Rock Garden Society, June, 1999, for a lifetime of botanical accomplishment and public service.

Baeomyces weberi J. W. Thomson, Lichen, New Guinea

Cetraria weberi Esslinger = Tuckermanella weberi Esslinger, Lichen, Arizona

Conotremopsis weberiana Vezda, Lichen, Tasmania

Cryptantha weberi I. M. Johnston, Flowering plant (Boraginaceae), Colorado

Dimelaena weberi Sheard, Lichen, Guadalupe Island, Mexico

Dimerella weberi Vezda, Lichen, New Guinea

Draba weberi Price & Rollins, Flowering plant (Brassicaceae), Colorado

Frullania weberi Hattori, Bryophyte (Hepaticae), New Guinea

Lecanora weberi B. Ryan, Lichen, Colorado

Megalospora weberi Sipman, Lichen, New Guinea

Metzgeria weberi Kuwahara, Bryophyte (Hepaticae), New Guinea

Phyllopsora weberi Ferraro, Lichen, Argentina

Pertusaria weberi Elix, Lichen, Australia

Porina weberi McCarthy, Lichen, Chile

Rinodina weberi Sheard, Lichen, Guadalupe Island, Mexico

Saussurea weberi Hultén, Flowering plant (Compositae), Colorado

Staurolemma weberi Jörgensen & Henssen, Lichen, Hawaii

Stellaria weberi Boivin, Flowering plant (Caryophyllaceae), Colorado

Stereocaulon weberi Lamb, Lichen, Galápagos Islands

Thelenella weberi Mayrhofer, lichen, California, Mexico

Thelotrema weberi Hale, Lichen, New Guinea

Toninia weberi Timdal, Lichen, Iran, Colorado

Wawea Henssen & Kantvilas, Lichen genus, Tasmania

Weberaster A. Löve, flowering plant genus (Asteraceae), United States

Willwebera Löve, Flowering plant genus (Alsinaceae), Pyrenees

Willwebera montana Löve, Flowering plant

Xanthoparmelia weberi (Hale) Hale, Lichen, Arizona

Xanthoparmelia neoweberi Hale, Lichen, South Africa)

Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, President, American Bryological and Lichenological Society

President, Colorado Native Plant Society

Steering Committee, ICSEB (International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology) Boulder

Secretary-Treasurer, Colorado Associated University Press (charter member)

1953. Handbook of Plants of the Colorado Front Range. 232 pp., 68 figs. Univ. of Colorado Press, Boulder.

1961. Handbook of Plants of the Colorado Front Range. 2nd ed., revised. Univ. of Colorado Press.

1966. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, 1866-1948 (Biobibliography). Univ. Colorado Studies, Ser. Bibliography 1:1-124. frontispiece.

____. Wildlife of the Southern Rocky Mountains [with R. C. Beidleman & C. F. Yocom]. The Naturegraph Company.

____. Rocky Mountain Flora. 437 pp., 346 illustr. Univ. of Colorado Press.

1969. "Grand Canyon". Daily Log and Guide Book for Field Trip No. 1. XI International Botanical Congress. 100 pages.

1972. [Scheda for] Cryptogamae Formationum Coloradensium. Centuries I-VI, numbers 1-615, 1905-1908, distributed by Frederick Edward Clements (1874-1945) and Edith Schwartz Clements (1877-1971). 66 pages, offset. Printed by the New York Botanical Garden.

____. Catalogue of the lichens of Australia [with Clifford Wetmore]. Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte. i-iv, 1-137.

____. Rocky Mountain Flora. Fourth edition. 437 pp., 16 color plates. Colorado Associated University Press.

____. Random-Access key to the genera of Colorado mosses [with Patricia Nelson]. 203 cards, booklet. Univ. of Colorado Museum.

_____ ____. The Torrey Botanical Club Centennial Celebration of the dedication of Gray's and Torrey's Peaks. Souvenir Booklet. 22 pp., with facsimile reproduction of The Colorado Miner for Aug. 22, 1872.

1973. Guide to the mosses of Colorado; keys and ecological notes based on field and herbarium studies. INSTAAR, Occ. Pap. 6: iii+48 pp. offset.

1976. Theodore D. A. Cockerell: Letters from West Cliff, Colorado, 1887-1889. 222 pp., illustr. Colorado Associated University Press. (received Centennial Medal)

____. Rocky Mountain Flora, 5th edition revised. 479 pp., 375 figs., 32 colored plates. Colorado Associated University Press.

____. Natural History Inventory of Colorado, I. Vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes (with Barry C. Johnston). 206 pp. Computer-generated. Univ of Colorado Museum.

1987. Colorado Flora: Western Slope. 530 pp, 64 color plates, 107 line drawings, 1 map. University Press of Colorado. August 5.

1990. Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope. 530 pp, 64 colored plates, 115 line drawings. University Press of Colorado. May.

1992. Catalog of the Colorado Flora: a Biodiversity Baseline. (with Ronald C. Wittmann). 215 pp. University Press of Colorado.

1996. Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope. Second Edition. 524 pp. University Press of Colorado.

____. Colorado Flora: Western Slope. Second Edition. 496 pp. University Press of Colorado.

1997. King of Colorado Botany. Charles Christopher Parry, 1823-1890.183 pp., 5 plates. University Press of Colorado.

1998. A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer (with J. N. Corbridge). 47 pp., 72 plates. University Press of Colorado.

2000. The American Cockerell: A Naturalist's Life, 1860-1948. 352 pages, 11 plates. University Press of Colorado. February.

2001. Flora of Colorado: Eastern Slope, third edition. 521 pp. University Press of Colorado,

____. Flora of Colorado: Western Slope. Third edition. 488 pp. University Press of Colorado.

2004. The Valley of the Second Sons: Letters from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell written to his sweetheart and her brother about his life in West Cliff, Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, 1887-1890. 566 pages, illustr. Pilgrims' Process, Inc., Longmont, Colorado.

____. (As editor of) Horner, John. Colorado University--The Austere Years. University of Colorado Alumni Association (in press).

______. Bryophyte Flora of Colorado. In progress, scheduled for publication in 2005.

_____. Materials for a personal memoir. In progress, on disk. Five loose leaf volumes.

1944. The botanical collections of Wilhelm N. Suksdorf, 1850-1932. Research Studies State College of Washington 12:51-121.

1946. A taxonomic and cytological study of the genus Wyethia, family Compositae, with notes on the related genus Balsamorhiza. American Midland Naturalist 35:400-452.

1952. The genus Helianthella (Compositae). American Midland Naturalist 48:1-35.

1966. A synopsis of the North American species of Cyphelium. Bryologist 70:197-203.

1968. A taxonomic revision of Acarospora, subgenus Xanthothallia. Lichenologist 4:16-31.

[These were formally published and distributed sets of specimens, with booklets of facsimile labels]. Sets were distributed to 60 institutions throughout the world.

1961. Lichenes Exsiccati, distributed by the University of Colorado Museum [Lichenes Exsiccati COLO]. Fasc. 1 (no. 1-40).

1963. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 2 (no. 41-80).

1964. Colorado lichens [notice of the Lichenes Exsiccati COLO with list of recipients]. Taxon 13:31.

1965. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 3 (no. 81-120).

1966. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 4 (no. 121-160). Jan. 30.

1967. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 5 (no. 161-200). 1 March.

1969. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 6-7 (no. 201-280).

1971. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 8-9 (no. 281-360).

1975. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 10-11 (no. 361-440) and 12, pars ( no. 441-465).

1976. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 12, pars - 13 (no. 466-520).

1979. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 14-15 (no. 521-600).

1981. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fascicles 1-15, Nos. 1-600, 1961-1979. Mycotaxon 13:85-104.

1984. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 16 (no. 601-640). 1 November.

1989. Lichenes Exsiccati COLO. Fasc. 17-18 (No. 641-700). 1 January.

1965. Plant geography in the southern Rocky Mountains. [in] The Quaternary of the United States. ed. H. E. Wright, Jr. & David G. Frey), pp. 453-468.

1966. Lichenology and bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with check lists of the lichens and bryophytes thus far reported. Pp. 190-200 [in] The Galápagos (Robert I. Bowman, ed.). Univ. California Press.

1971. Das Pflanzenkleid [Vegetation], pp. 101-122, [in] The Grand Canyon. Kümmerly & Frey, Bern. (German and English versiobns)

1977. Environmental modification and lichen taxonomy. Chapter 2, pp. 9-29 [in] Seaward, M. R. D., ed. Lichen Ecology. Academic Press.

1984. Lichens and Bryophytes. Chapter 5, pp. 71-84, [in] Key Environments, Galápagos. Pergamon Press, Oxford.

1986. Effects on cryptogamic vegetation (lichens, mosses, and liverworts) [with Hans Beck]. pp. 343-361, [in] El Niño in the Galápagos Islands: the 1982-1983 Event. Gary Robinson & Eugenia M. del Pino, eds. Charles Darwin Foundation, Quito.

1939. Summer Flora of Northrop Camp [Berkshire Co., Mass.] Typescript. 118 pages + map (three copies made) [This was cited incorrectly by Rogers McVaugh in a list of floras of western Massachusetts, as having as author W. A. Archer!]

1940. Potamogeton hillii in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Rhodora 42:95.

1942. Geranium bicknellii earlier than G. nemorale. Ibid. 44:91.

1943. Vigethia, a new genus of Compositae based on Wyethia mexicana Watson. Madroño 7:97-100.

____. Natural hybridization in the genus Balsamorhiza. American Journal of Botany 30:179-187 [with Marion Ownbey].

1948. White Rocks. The Green Thumb, October. pp. 6-8, 5 photos.

____. The genus Helianthella in Oregon. Madroño 9:186-189.

1949. A vasculum for mountaineers. Turtox News, p. 279). September.

____. The flora of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado, Dept. of Biology. 200 pages, mimeographed.

1950. Recent additions to the flora of Colorado. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology 1:46-50.

____. A new species and subgenus of Atriplex from southwestern Colorado. Madroño 10:187-191.

____. Physaria vitulifera, a tetraploid species of Cruciferae [with James L. Brewbaker]. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology 1:24-28.

____. Supplementary note concerning Atrichum selwyni. Bryologist 53:136-138.

____. Other Colorado columbines. The Green Thumb, 26-27. February.

____. Moss Flora of Colorado: additions in Aulacomnium. Bryologist 55:297.

____. The glabrate form of Wyethia arizonica. Leaflets of Western Botany 6:223-225.

1952. Phippsia algida in the United States. Rhodora 54:141-145.

1953. Alpine treasure-hunting. The Green Thumb, 32-35. 3 figs.

____. Balsamorhiza terebinthacea and other hybrid balsam-roots. Madroño 12:47-49.

1954. Lichens - only survivors? [with S. Shushan]. Colorado Quarterly 2:412-419.

1955. Additions to the Flora of Colorado. II. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology. 3:65-114.

____. The lichen flora of Colorado: Cetraria, Cornicularia, Dactylina and Thamnolia [with S. Shushan]. l.c. pp. 115-134. 6 plates.

1957. A new intergeneric hybrid involving Oryzopsis and Stipa (Gramineae). Rhodora 59:273-277.

____. Tortula papillosa in New Mexico. Bryologist 60:143-145.

1958. The bryophyte flora of Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska [with Herman Persson]. Ibid. 61:214-242.

____. Analysis of a pika hay pile [with R. Beidleman]. Journal of Mammalogy 39:599-600.

____. Rediscovery of the genus Neoparrya Mathias (Umbelliferae). Rhodora 60:265-271.

1959. Lichens of the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada, collected by Dr. Herman Persson. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 53:299-306.

____. Flowers that bloom in the spring. Colorado Wonderland, April, pp. 12-20.

____. Some features of the distribution of arctic relicts at their austral limits. Proceedings of the IX International Botanical Congress, Montreal 2:425-426.

1961. A second record for Oreas martiana, from Colorado. Bryologist 63:241-244. 1960 [published January 1961].

____. Additions to the Flora of Colorado, III. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology 7:1-26.

____. Studies of Colorado bryophytes. l.c. pp. 27-52.

1962. Some features of the distribution of Arctic relicts at their austral limits. [in] Recent Advances in Botany, Sect. 9:912-913. XI International Botanical Congress, Montreal

____. Quercus ajoensis in Colorado [with J. Erdman & J. Tucker]. Southwestern Naturalist 7:269-270.

____. Environmental modification and the taxonomy of the crustose lichens. Svensk Botanist Tidskrift 56:293-333. 1 colored plate.

1963. Two new species of Parmelia from western United States [with R. A. Anderson]. Bryologist 65:234-241.

____. Additions to the bryophyte flora of Colorado. l.c. pp. 192-200.

____. Lichens of the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology 10:1-27.

1964. Lichens on Galápagos giant tortoises [with John R. Hendrickson]. Science 144:1463.

____. Botany of the Boulder Region. pp 43-46 [in] Natural History of the Boulder Area. Univ. of Colorado Museum.

____. Plants. [in] Mountain Wild Life of Colorado. ed. 2. Boulder Chamber of Commerce.

____. A bizarre new species of Rinodina (lichenized fungi) from Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Bryologist 67:473-476 [published January 5, 1965].

1965. Iranian plants collected by Per Wendelbo in 1959. VIII. Lichenes. Acta Universitatis Bergensis, Ser. Math. rerenque Naturalium, 1964 No. 14:1-8. 1 fig.

____. The lichen flora of Colorado. 2. Pannariaceae. University of Colorado Studies, Series in

Biol. 16:1-10.

____. Hubbsia, a new genus of Roccellaceae (lichenized fungi) from Mexico. Svensk Botanisk. Tidskrift 59:59-64. 2 plates.

____. Mount Evans, concentration point for Pleistocene relict plants. INQUA guidebook for one-day field conference, Boulder area, Colorado, pp. 10-12. International Quaternary Association.

1966. Additions to the Colorado Flora, IV. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Biology 23:1-24.

____. Mitteilung über Flechteninhaltstoffe. Über die Inhaltstoffe einiger Roccella-Arten [with S. Huneck, G. Follmann and G. Trotet]. Zeitschrift für. Naturforschung 22b: 671-673.

____. Environmental modification in crustose lichens, II. Fruticose growth forms in Aspicilia. Aquilo, Series Botanica 6:43-51.

1967. Lichens of Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska [with L. A. Viereck]. Bryologist 70:227-235.

1968. with G. Follmann & S. Huneck]. Mitteilungen über Flechten Inhaltstoffe, LIV. Zur Chemotaxonomie des Dactylina/Dufourea-Komplexen [with G. Follmann & S. Huneck]. Willdenowia 5:7-13.

1969. Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax [account of Weber's New Guinea collections and their near-loss by fire on ship]. International Lichenological Newsletter 3:1-5.

____. Annotated list of lichens. [In] Vegetation of Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 648:47-50.

1970. The names of two common California Ramalina species. Taxon 19:253-254.

1971. Mountain maple mites. The Green Thumb.

____. A new species of Heterodermia (Physciaceae) from Colorado. Bryologist 74:181-183.

____. A new species of Aspicilia (Lichenes, Lecanoraceae) from western United States. l.c. p. 183-185.

____. Four new species of Buellia (Lichenes) from western North and South America. l.c. p. 185-191.

____. Two new lichens from New Guinea. l.c. p. 191-194.

1972. Mimulus gemmiparus, sp. nov., from Colorado. Madroño 21:423-425.

____. Calathaspis, a new genus of lichens (Cladoniaceae) from New Guinea [with I. M. Lamb]. Occasional Papers, Farlow Cryptogamic Herbarium, Harvard University 4:1-12.

____. A revision of African Tayloriae (Splachnaceae) including Bryomnium [with T. Koponen] Ann. Bot. Fennici 9:126-134.

____. The identity of Barbula pseudopilifera (Musci: Pottiaceae). Lindbergia 1:214-216.

____. Computer inventory of the flora of Colorado. Mudpie 24:1-5.

1973. Rediscovery of Neuropogon lambii. Bryologist 76:305.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, V, with nomenclatural revisions. Southwestern Naturalist 18:319-329.

____. Bryophyte collections of the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, U.S.A. Taxon 22:514.

1974. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell. Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 4, 1946-1950: 166-168.

____. Additions to the lichen flora of Arizona, II [with T. H. Nash III]. Bryologist 76: 472-474.

____. Two lichen-arthropod associations in Australia and New Guinea. Lichenologist 6:168.

1975. Two new species of Lecanora, section Petrasterion, with a key to North American species. Bryologist 78:206-210.

____. Physcia duplicorticata Weber & Thomson, sp. nov. from California. Mycotaxon 3:102-104.

1976. New combinations in the Rocky Mountain Flora. Phytologia 33:105-106.

____. Additions to the bryophyte flora of the Galápagos Islands. Lindbergia 4:76-79.

____. A new species of Polychidium (Lichenes: Peltigeraceae) from New Guinea. Mycotaxon 3:355-357.

____. An efficient method for the capture and transmission of specimen label information [with Robert Adams]. Taxon 25:479-482.

1977. Juncus triglumis in North America [with Frederick J. Hermann]. Rhodora 79:160-162.

____. Tetraphis pellucida and T. geniculata: Scindulae as diagnostic features in bryophytes. Bryologist 80:164-167.

____. A new species of Psora (Lichenes: Lecideaceae) from Texas and Mexico. Mycotaxon 6:178-180.

____. Bryophytes and lichens of the Galápagos Islands [with R. Gradstein, J. Lanier & H. Sipman]. Noticias de Galápagos 26:7-11.

____. Placynthium (Ach.) S. F. Gray, a genus of lichens previously unreported from Australia. Muelleria 3:250.

1979. New combinations in Rhizoplaca for endemic American species of Lecanora auctt. Mycotaxon 8:559-560.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, VI [with B. C. Johnston & D. Wilken]. Phytologia 41:486-500.

____. Pseudostellaria jamesiana, comb. nov., a North American representative of a Eurasian genus. [with R. Hartman]. Ibid. 44:313-314.

____. Aloina bifrons (Musci: Pottiaceae) new to South America. Bryologist 82:493.

____. Baeomyces frenchianus, an Australian endemic and its chemotaxonomy [with Alan W. Archer]. l.c. pp. 481-482.

1980. Map of mixed prairie grassland vegetation, Rocky Flats, Colorado [with S. V. Clark & V. Komarkova]. Instiute of Alpine and Arctic Research (INSTAAR), Occasional paper 35:1-66, map.

____. Mnemonic three-letter acronyms for the families of flowering plants. Association of Systematic Collections Newsletter 9:23-26.

1981. New combinations in the genus Packera (Asteraceae) [with Áskell Löve]. Phytologia 49: 44-50.

____. Management of Herbarium COLO. Association of Systematic Collections, Bulletin 9: 51-54.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, VII [with B. C. Johnston & R. Wittmann]. Brittonia 33: 325-331.

1982. Mnemonic three-letter acronyms for the families of vascular plants: a device for more effective herbarium curation. Taxon 31:74-88.

____. Bryogeography of the Galápagos Islands [with S. R. Gradstein]. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 52:127-152.

____. A new species of Balsamorhiza from the Siskiyou region of Oregon and California. Phytologia 50:357-359.

____. Note on Senecio. Ibid. 51:163.

____. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain Flora. II. l.c. 369-376.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, VIII [with R. C. Wittmann]. l.c. 376-380.

1983. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain Flora, III. Phytologia 53:187-190.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, IX. l.c. p. 191-193.

____. A new woolly-headed, monocephalous Erigeron (Asteraceae) from Montana [with Guy L. Nesom]. Madroño 30:245-249.

1984. Aphid infestation on honeysuckle. The Green Thumb 41:27.

____. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain Flora, IV. Phytologia 55:1-11.

____. Galápagos cryptogams and the 1983 record El Niño. International Lichenological. Newsletter 17:5-7.

____. Bryophytes and lichens of the Galápagos Islands. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1975) 16:781-790.

____. Death on the Galápagos [with S. R. Gradstein]. Bryological Times 26:1-2.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, X (with R. C. Wittmann]. Phytologia 55:11-13.

1985. Occurrence of Cynodontium gracilescens in North America, Colorado). [with F. J. Hermann]. Bryologist 88:26.

____. New names and combinations principally in the Rocky Mountain flora, V. Phytologia 58:382-384.

____. The genus Teloxys Chenopodiaceae). Phytologia 58:477-478.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, XI [with R. C. Wittmann]. l.c. 385-388.

1986. When is a plant native? The Green Thumb 43:29-32.

____. The lichen flora of the Galápagos Islands. Mycotaxon 27:451-497.

____. Penstemon penlandii, sp. nov. (SCR) from Colorado. Phytologia 60:459-461.

____. Pronunciation of scientific names. Madroño 33:224-235.

____. Salix lanata L. subsp. calcicola, in Colorado [with George Argus]. Madroño 33:148-149.

1987. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain Flora, VI. Phytologia 62:437-438.

____. Noteworthy collections, Colorado: Bryum blindii BSG. Madroño 34:171.

____. Lichens and bryophytes of the Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Conservancy Reserve, Riverside County, California [with Charis Bratt & Jeanne Larson]. Evansia 4:21-25.

____. Witches Brooms. Aquilegia 12 (9):4.

1989. Final studies of lichens and bryophytes. Charles Darwin Research Station, Annual Report, 1984-1985, pp. 25-26.

____. A new species of Caloplaca (section Gasparrinia) from California, with notes on some other American Caloplaca. Graphis Scripta 2:168-170.

____. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain flora, VII. Phytologia 67:425-428.

____. Additions to the flora of Colorado, XII. l.c. 429-437.

____. Plants of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument [with Mary E. Edwards]. Pikes Peak Research Station Bulletin 2: 1-23.

1990. Additions to the lichen flora of Colorado and North America. Evansia 7:17-25.

____. Potamogeton diversifolius revisited. Aquilegia 14(6):1-2.

1991. New names and combinations in the Rocky Mountain Flora, VIII. Phytologia 70:231-233.

____. The mystery of Thamnosma texanum in Colorado. Aquilegia 15(1)1-2.

____. The alpine flora of Summit Lake, Mount Evans, Colorado. Aquilegia 15(4):3-10.

____. The first collection of Spiranthes diluvialis. Aquilegia 15:4.

1992. Biatorella clauzadeana in North America. Lichenologist 24:101-103 [With T. H. Nash III].

____. Lichens collected on the Arctic Excursion of the 9th International Botanical Congress (Montreal) in 1959 [with John W. Thomson]. Bryologist 95:392-405.

____. What's in a name? [Iliamna]. Aquilegia 16(2):9.

____. Those awful generic names [Breea arvensis]. Aquilegia 16(2):10.

____. Field Notes: Dicentra uniflora. Aquilegia 16(5):8.

____. A visit to the Oklahoma Native Plant Society. Aquilegia 16(6):9.

____. Backyard biology: Oxybaphus. Aquilegia 15(1):11.

1993. Additions to the Galápagos and Cocos Islands lichen and bryophyte flora. Bryologist 96:431-434.

____. The lichen flora of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. pp. 65-71, in Hochberg, F. G. (ed.). Third California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands. 661 pp. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

____. How to collect Eleocharis. Aquilegia 17(3):11.

____. An eightieth anniversary [of the International Phytogeographic Excursions]. Ibid. p. 13.

1994. A tale of two gentians [Pneumonanthe bigelovii and P. affinis]. Aquilegia 18(4:) 4.

____. Field notes [1994 season]. Ibid. p. 5.

1995. A bibliography of the published works of Áskell Löve. Acta Bot. Islandica 12:6-33.

____. Checklist of Vascular Plants, Boulder County, Colorado. Natural History Inventory of Colorado 16:1-66. University of Colorado Museum.

____. New names and combinations, principally in the Rocky Mountain Flora, IX. Phytologia 79:65-67.

____. Double-take on Anticlea. Aquilegia 19(20).

____. [Obituary] Klaus Lackschevitz, Montana's alpine botanist. Aquiegia 19(3):8-9.

_____. English Plants, Latin Dinosaurs. Natural History 8:6.

_____. Checklist of Vascular Plants, Boulder County, Colorado. Nat. Hist. Inventory Colorado. 16:1-66. Univ. of Colorado Museum.

____. Vernacular names - why, oh why? Botanical Electronic Newsletter (BEN).

1996. Aspicilia moenium in the Western Hemisphere. Evansia 13: 159. 1996 [1997].

____. A checklist of the lichens of San Clemente Island, California.[with Peter A. Bowler and Richard E. Riefner]. Bull. Calif. Lichen Soc. 3(2):1-8.

____. Colorado flora miscellany: Corispermum. Aquilegia 20(3):5.

____. Colorado miscellany: Heterotheca revisited. Aquilegia 20(4):5.

1997. Didymodon anserino-capitatus (Musci, Pottiaceae), new to the New World. [with Richard H. Zander].Bryologist 100:237-238.

1998. New names and combinations in Asteraceae: Helianthease-Ecliptinae. Phytologia 85:19-212. [published Nov. 1999!]. Contains an uncorrected error: subsp, cinerea should read canescens!

1999. Vicia americana, or is it? Aquilegia 24:12.

____. Oligosporus dracunculus. l.c.

2000. Leptopterigynandrum austroamericanum: Field observations and relevance to family designation. Evansia 17:81-83.

____. Recollections of the Herbarium [about Marion Ownbey, Balsamorhiza research, Calochortus. Washington State University, Department of Botany Newsletter, Spring, 2000, pp. 1, 6.

2001. Salsola paulsenii in Colorado. Aquilegia 25(1-2):6.

____. Colorado Bryological Hot Spots. 1. Boulder Mountain Park. [with Ronald C. Wittmann]. Evansia 18(4):143-146. 2001 (Jan. 2002).

2002. Colorado Bryological Hot Spots: 2. Mount Evans. Evansia 19: 71-73.

2003. The Middle Asian Element in the Southern Rocky Mountain Flora of the western United States: a critical biogeographical review. Journal of Biogeography 30:649-685.

____. Colorado Bryological Hot Spots. 3. High Creek Fen. Evansia 20:51-52.

____. Seville Flowers' Mosses of Utah and the West: annotations. Evansia 20: ***

____. Grimmia bernoullii Mueller. Hal. in the United States. Evansia 20:104-106.

2004. [with Richard H. Zander] Anoectangium handelii (Pottiaceae, Bryopsida) in the New World. Bryologist [in press].

[In press]. Balsamorhiza, Wyethia, Helianthella, Scabrethia, and Agnorhiza. Flora North America Project.

[In press]. Leptopterigynandrum austro-alpinum and Oreas martiana (bryophytes). Flora of North America Project.

1992. George Kelly. Aquilegia 15(6):4. [also reprinted in part by Rocky Mountain Gardener 2(1).10. 1991].

1993. More on Geneva Sayre. Bryologist 96:681-682.

____. Hugo Ferchau: In Memoriam. Aquilegia 17(2):11.

____. The passing of Eilif Dahl. Aquilegia 17:14.

1994. Áskell Löve, 1916-1994. In Memoriam. Arctic and Alpine Research 26:313-314.

____. Áskell Löve, 1916-1994. Taxon 43:670.

1995. Áskell Löve, 1916-1994. Acta Botanica Islandica 12:3-5.

____. Roger A. Anderson, 1935-1995, International Lichenological Newsletter 28:38.

2000. Doris Löve, 1918-2000. In Memoriam. (with Loa Kaersvang and Jack Ives). Journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 32:360-362.

Brodo, Irwin M. 2000. Lichenology in the American Bryological and Lichenological Society--1899-1999. Bryologist 103:15-27. [with portrait of W. A. W.]

Crase, Douglas. 2004. Both: A Portrait in Two Parts.[biography of Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barneby]. Page 64 contains Barneby's brief tribute to W. A. W., "the absolute premier student of the Rocky Mountain Flora".

Usinger, Robert Leslie. 1972. Autobiography of an Entomologist. California Academy of Sciences. [p. 235, an anecdote concerning Weber's lichen collecting on Galapagos, 1964; ". . . .Dr. W. A. Weber, lichenologist at the University of Colorado Museum came in from his first day of field work like a small boy from a candy shop. . . ."]

1963. Breen, Ruth Schornherst. Mosses of Florida. Bryologist 66: 89-90.

1969. Calder, J. A., & Roy L. Taylor. Flora of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Canad. Field-Naturalist 83:287-288.

____. A special kind of habitat. Segal, S. Ecological notes on wall vegetation. Science 166:1500.

1970. Arthur T. Viertel. Trees, shrubs, and vines: A pictorial guide to the ornamental woody plants of the northern United States, exclusive of conifers. 166 pp. Syracuse Univ. Press. American Biology Teacher, November, p. 500-501. [this item added 6/25/01]

1971. Wiggins, Ira L. & Duncan M. Porter. Flora of the Galápagos Islands. Science 175:290-291.

____. Treshow, Welsh & Moore. Guide to the woody plants of the mountain states. American Biology Teacher 33:499.

1972. Wiggins, Ira L. & Duncan M. Porter. Flora of the Galápagos Islands. Bryologist 75:121.

1973. Cronquist, A., A. Holmgren, N. Holmgren & J. Reveal. Intermountain Flora, Vol. I. Madroño 22:156-157.

____. Viereck, Leslie A., & Elbert L. Little, Jr. Alaska Trees and Shrubs. Arctic and Alpine Research 5:155.

1974. Flowers, Seville. Mosses:Utah and the West [A. Holmgren, ed.]. Bryologist 77:276-277.

____. Dean, Blanche E. Wild flowers of Alabama and adjoining states. American Biology Teacher 36: 373.

____. Ahmadjian & Hale. The lichens; Dahl & Krog, Macrolichens of Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden; Henssen & Jahns, Lichenes, Eine Entführung in die Flechtenkunde; Ferry et al., Air Pollution and Lichens; Heywood, Taxonomy and Ecology. Arctic & Alpine Research 6:416-417.

1975. Porsild, A. E. Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers. Ibid. 7:200.

____. Mark, A. F., & N. M. Adams. New Zealand Alpine Plants. Arctic & Alpine Research. Ibid. 100.

1976. Gould, Frank W. The grasses of Texas. Journal of Range Management 29:439-440.

____. Löve, Askell, & Doris Löve. Cytotaxonomical atlas of the Arctic flora. 578 pp. J. Cramer.

1977. Dorn, Robert G. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Wyoming. Systematic Botany 2:230-231.

1978. Ritschel, Gabriele Aiko. Verbreitung und Soziologie epiphytischer Flechten in Nordwestbayern. Bryologist 81:708.

1979. Rodenberg, Lars. Epilithische Vegetation in einem alten Weidegebiet auf Mittel-Öland, Schweden. Bryologist 82:120.

1981. Schneider, G. Die Flechtengattung Psora sensu Zahlbruckner. Bryologist 84: 611-612.

-----. Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. A Flora of New Mexico. Brittonia 33: 491-492.

1982. Creveld, Marijke. Epilithic lichen communities in the Alpine Zone of southern Norway. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 17. 287 pages, 77 figs. J. Cramer, FL-9490 Vaduz. 1981. Bryologist 85:275.

1984. Löve, Áskell. Flora of Iceland. Arctic and Alpine Research 16(1):127.

____. Moss, E. H. Flora of Alberta, second edition, revised by John G. Packer. Arctic and Alpine Research 16:373-374.

1985. Chung, In-cho. The Arctic and the Rockies as seen by a botanist: Pictorial. Arctic and Alpine Research 17:220.

1989. Vitt, D. H., et al. Mosses, lichens and ferns of northwest North America. Taxon 38:412-413.

1990. Galloway, D. J. 1985. Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. 662 pp. Bryologist 93:382-383.

____. McQueen, Cyrus B. 1990. Field Guide to the Peat Mosses of Boreal North America. xvi + 138 pp. Univ. Press of New England. Arctic and Alpine Research 22: ***

____. Chung, In-cho. *** Alpine and Arctic Research.

1993. Vavilov, N. I. Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants. [translation by Doris Löve]. Arctic & Alpine Research 25(3): 256.

1996. Goodman, G. J. & S. Lawson. Retracing Major Stephen H. Long's 1820 Expedition: The Itinerary and Botany. Systematic Botany 21:255.

1997. Scott, R. W. The Alpine Flora of the Rocky Mountains, Vol. I. The Middle Rockies. Alpine and Arctic Research 29:366.

1999. Tibell, L., & I. Hedberg. Lichen Studies Dedicated to Rolf Santesson. (Symbolae Botanici Upsaliensis 32:1-337. 1997). Bryologist 102:344.

......... Aptroot, A., P. Diederich. E. Serusiaux, & H.J.M. Sipman. Lichens and lichenicolous fungi from New Guinea. (Bibliotheca Lichenologica 64:1-220. 1997). Bryologist 102:345.

Collaborator, Wild Flowers of the U. S.: Central Mountains and Plains. New York Botanical Garden

1991. Nature in America. 456 pp. Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

1948. The classification of the angiosperm fruits (abstract). Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 3:57.

____. The University of Colorado Herbarium--a progress report (abstract). l.c.

____. The botanical collections of C. C. Parry in Colorado in 1867 (abstract). l.c. p. 42.

1949. Preliminary observations on plant distribution patterns in Colorado. I. The relict flora (abstract). Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 4:45.

____. The flora of Boulder County, Colorado (abstract). l.c. p. 48.

1952. Phippsia algida in the United States (abstract). Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 4:62.

____. Plant distribution patterns in Colorado II. The true prairie relict flora (abstract). l.c. p. 64.

1959. The lichen flora of Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska (abstract). Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 4:33. 963.

____. A cryptogamic excursion to Guadalupe Island, Mexico (Abstract). Bryologist 65:240.

1 1974. A botanical inventory of the Rocky Flats AEC site [with G. Kunkel & L. Shultz]. Final Report COO-2731-2. Atomic Energy Commission.

____. [abstract] Floristic Needs in the Pacific Basin: lichens. Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Science Congress 1:114.

1977. Lichens in the Galápagos Islands [with J. Lanier]. 20 pp. [in Spanish]. Charles Darwin Research Station.

1980. Natural History Inventory of Colorado, I. Vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes, 2nd ed. [with B. C. Johnston]. 220 pp. Univ. of Colorado Museum.

____. Check-list of vascular plants of Mesa County, Colorado and Colorado National Monument (with Claudia Rector). Unpublished working ms, 44 pp.

1981. Trek Nepal, a journal of observations by a botanist with the American Women's expedition to Dhaulagiri I, 1980, led by Vera Komarkova. 44 pp, 2 maps. Univ. of Colorado Museum.

NSF Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1957-8

NSF Research Grant: lichens of the Rocky Mountains, 1962?

NSF Facilities Grant for herbarium furniture, 1962?

NSF Facilities Grant for compact storage for the herbarium, 1989 ($235,000)

1. The Herbarium. He took a small, low quality herbarium of about 30,000 specimens in 1946 and in forty years, single-handed, through collection and exchange, built it into a National Resource herbarium of 450,000 specimens well-balanced between vascular plants 235,000), bryophytes 100,000), lichens 100,000), fungi 15,000), and algae 5,000). It is world-wide in scope, specializing in high mountain floras. and has national and international ranking in many of its holdings.

2. The Lichen Exsiccati. He assembled and distributed a standard herbarium of landmark specimens of lichens, 700 numbers distributed to 60 herbaria all over the world, a total of 42,000 specimens! Exsiccati are standard replicated reference sets which are as valuable, in herbaria, as published books.

3. The Family acronyms. He designed and published a standard set of three-letter acronyms for the vascular plant families of the world, which has been adopted widely. This was something that someone could or should have done years ago, but it is becoming invaluable as a code for the Gray Herbarium Index and for writers who use complex charts and graphs in cladistic taxonomy.

4. Rocky Mountain Flora. He has published an excellent botanical field guide which has been in continuous print since 1953. This has been instrumental in producing a generation of Colorado citizens knowledgeable about the flora. For this work and other service he was awarded the Wright-Ingraham Institute Award in 1981. The format of this book has been imitated in local floras in the USSR.

5. Colorado Flora: Western Slope, and Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope. These sequels to Rocky Mountain Flora is the first field guide completely covering Colorado east and west of the Continental Divide. He produced this camera-ready entirely on his own without the help of a typist. It is highly original in its use of family acronyms in place of a paginated index, and he has reconsidered for the first time in Colorado long-standing genus concepts and proposes radical and controversial changes.

6. Catalog of the Colorado Flora. Published in January, 1992, this catalog accounts for all names used for Colorado vascular plants, lichens, and bryophytes from 1874 to the present. Lists of synonyms with forwarding addresses are given for names no longer in use, and plants originally described from Colorado specimens dating back to the 1860s are listed with their bibliographic citations and specific data. Introduced (alien) and endemic species are also noted. References on which Colorado records were based are provided and keyed into a comprehensive bibliography.

6. Service abroad. He has helped foreign botanists, especially with their problems in the cryptogamic flora. He trained the present leader of Indian Lichenology, D. D. Awasthi, who did his doctorate here. His expertise in aiding Donald McVean in alpine floras of Australia and New Guinea earned him an invitation to work there for a year where he did pioneering collecting. Although not a phytosociologist, he has been invited many times to the field trips of the International Phytogeographical Excursion (Zurich) to France, Italy, Greece, and Crete, Norway and Finland. He has participated in two summers of field work in the USSR Altai with the New York Botanical Garden Botanical exchange program in Siberia.

7. The Galápagos Islands. In 1964 he participated in the Galápagos International Scientific Expedition which opened the islands to modern research, and, after seven more trips, has become the leading authority on Galápagos mosses and lichens.

8. Expertise. He is the leading floristic botanist in Colorado, the only person who has actually seen 99.9 per cent of the Colorado Flora in the field. He has been much in demand for his expertise in plant identification for ecologists doing ecological impact studies. He has led important field trips in this area, including trips for AIBS, ICSEB, the International Botanical Congress, and INQUA.

9. Teaching. While carrying on a curatorial job in the Museum for no salary, he taught a full load in the Biology Department from 1946 to 1962. He taught General Botany, General Biology, Plant Anatomy, Plant Morphology, Genetics, Evolution, Agrostology, Bryophytes, Lichens, Field Botany. His graduate students have succeeded well: Les Viereck and Dave Murray, Alaska; Sven Froiland, Augustana; Leila Shultz, Logan; Barry Johnston, USFS, among others. In the Museum he has trained interns in herbarium management, and has lectured and held field courses in the region.

10. Service to societies. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President and President of the American Bryological Society, served on editorial boards for scientific journals and on steering committees for hosted meetings. He has been a trustee of the Colorado Associated University Press for over ten years, since its organization.

11. Conservation. He spearheaded the attempt to set aside the first National Natural History Landmark, Summit Lake, as a scientific preserve. He was deeply involved over many years in the successful attempt to save the White Rocks, a small area of sandstone cliffs near Boulder harboring very rare plants.

12. Outreach. He has been helping the City of Boulder in its continuing inventories of the plants of its open space and mountain parks. He made and deposited collections that established herbaria in the Colorado and Black Canyon National Monuments, Mesa Verde Nation al Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Dinosaur National Park, and Great Sand Dunes National Park.

13. A Renaissance Man. They don't make them this way anymore: a scientist who has developed research specialties in not only vascular plants, but lichen and bryophytes and plant geography, is regarded highly in the field for all four branches. He has a reading knowledge of many languages and a speaking one of several. He is a walking encyclopedia of bibliographic reference, knows thousands of species of plants at a glance. Not only that, he knows and loves classical music and is an avid reader of classic and modern literature, fiction and nonfiction. He is a biographer of note, having produced work on Wilhelm N. Suksdorf , C. C. Parry, and T. D. A. Cockerell.

14. The University. While faculty of a university contribute their talents to teaching and reap the rewards of their research, some use the university as a stepping stone or in some ways do not make themselves part of it. In our generation very few seem to be devoted to building their university and leaving behind all of their work, accumulated knowledge and treasure. Bill is one of those few.

15. Sammie. Behind every successful man there often is a woman. In this instance it is Selma Ruth Herrmann, Iowa State College, 1939, graduated in zoology. She suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1940 and died on November 15, 1996. A lot of the credit for Bill should go to her for support and patience over the years.

16. At age 86, his publication of an analysis of the historical plant geography of Colorado, with respect especially to Middle Asia. This extends the Asa Gray theory of the Arcto-Tertiary

Flora to include an highland and steppe element.

17. The completion of a fifty-year project to document the life and works of T. D. A. Cockerell. Three volumes: T.D.A. Cockerell, a bio-bibliography (1976), The American Cockerell: A Naturalist's Life, 1866-1948 (2000); and The Valley of the Second Sons: Letters from Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell to his sweetheart and her brother about his life in West Cliff, Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, 1887-1889. (2004).