William Webb (1834?–1897) was a collector and trader of plants and animals, active in the region around King George Sound in Southwest Australia.
[1] Amongst the specimens provided by Webb is the 1874 collection of Potorous platyops, the last of a small marsupial species named moda, a series of five animals forwarded and held at the Macleay Museum in Sydney.
[2] The botanist Ferdinand von Mueller notes the purchase of algae from a Mr Webb, assumed to be this individual, as the trader but not collector of the series found at Israelite Bay.
[3] He is mentioned by J. C. Hassell as collecting in his company at Mount Manypeaks and the Torbay region west of Albany, at Nornalup, and elsewhere.
Hassell gives a record of hearing the noisy scrub bird, Atrichornis clamosus, a rare and elusive species with a piercing and unmistakable call.