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- ↑ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries - Index of Botanists - Wight, William Franklin". Harvard University Herbaria . Harvard University . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ↑ "Ex-Farm Botanist W.F. Wight Dies". The Stanford Daily . Stanford University. 3 February 1954. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ↑ IPNI. W.Wight.
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