Worth Hamilton Weller

[2] Weller died in a fall from a cliff at Grandfather Mountain near Linville, North Carolina.

[citation needed] His interest in herpetology, specializing in salamanders, developed when he was a young boy.

established the Cincinnati Junior Society of Natural Sciences, Weller joined in 1928 and at the age of sixteen, became its business manager and Curator of Herpetology.

Weller carried out an extensive correspondence with the herpetologist Emmett Reid Dunn, which led to his acceptance at Haverford College.

[1] During the summer vacation between his sophomore and junior years at Walnut Hills High School, he visited Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina with Dury, where he discovered the first specimens of Weller's salamander (Plethodon welleri).