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Wood. Alphonso, 1810-1881 



ACAB; Brewer, 558; Meisel, 1:242; 1\CAB, 14:278; O. R. Willis, A Biographical 

 Sketch of Dr. Alphonso Wood, of West Farms . . ., 6 pp. (n.d.), examined in N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Library; anon, in New York [Times?] for April 19, 1903 (portr.); C. J. Lyon in 

 Dartmouth Alumni Mag., 31:18, 81-82, March, 1939, and in Science, 101:484-486, May 

 11, 1945; Woodcock d- Steam, 364. 



WooDHOUSE, Samuel Washington, 1821-1904 



Eioan, 340; Geiser-tivo, 283; Hume. 469-509 (portr.), the fullest act.; Palmer, 303; 

 Sargent, 8:88; Wagner-three, 230; W. Stone in Cassinia, 8:1-5 (portr.), 1904; W. S(tone) 

 in Auk, 22:104-106, 1905. 



W^ooDWORTH, Charles William, 1865-1940 

 Carpenter, 114; Essig, 800-802 (portr.). 



Wrangell, Ferdinand Petrovich, 1794-1870 



Brewer, 554, as Wrangel; Embacher, 299, as "1795-1870"; Essig, 802; Hulten, 300. 



Wright, Charles, 1811-1885 



Brewer, 558; DAB; Eicon, 342; Geiser-tioo, 283; Urban Symb. Ant., 141; C. S. Sar- 

 gent, Sci. Pap. of Asa Gray, 2:468-474, 1889. 



Wright, William Greenwood, ca. 1830-1912 



Carpenter, 115; Essig, 802-804 (portr.); Hulten, 308; J. D. Gunder in Entom. News, 

 40:33-34 (portr.), 1929; F. Grinnell, Jr., in Entom. News, 24:91-92, 1913, and Bull. So. 

 Calif. Acad. Sci., 12:19-21, 1913; his Butterflies of the West Coast, San Francisco, 1905, 

 is a rare book from the destruction of the stock in the 1906 fire. 



Xantus de Vesey, Lons John, 1825-1894 



Breioer, 558; Embaclier. 300; Essig, 804-808, map; Geiser-tico, 283, s.v. "Wiirttem- 

 berg"; Hume, 510-532 (portrs.), useful acct.; Meisel, 1:244 and 3:743; Palmer, 304; 

 Wagner-three, 316 ; Henry M. Madden, Xantus, Hungarian Naturalist in the Pioneer 

 West, Palo Alto, 1949, the latest full-length biog.; J. Grinnell, J. S. Dixon, and J. M. 

 Linsdale, Fur-bearing Mammals of California, 1:76-77, 1937. 



