K. W. Allison

K. W. Allison spent most of his working life in the New Zealand Forest Service, being stationed at various times at Rotorua, Waipoua, Naseby and Berwick. For over 25 years he assiduously collected mosses and liverworts, exchanging specimens with overseas experts and corresponding regularly with Mrs A. E. Hodgson, who published over 20 papers on liverworts of New Zealand. Allison's collection of some 7,000 liverwort specimens, has been donated recently to the National Herbarium.