Worth Hamilton Weller

Weller carried out an extensive correspondence with the herpetologist Emmett Reid Dunn which led to his acceptance at Haverford College. Between 1930 and 1932 he published 12 papers, most of which were reprinted in 1965.

In April 1930 he visited Cascade Caverns in Kentucky with Dury where he collected the type specimen of a salamander he described and named after Dury, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus duryi (Weller, 1930). 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).

Worth Hamilton Weller (May 28, 1913 – June 22, 1931) was an American herpetologist who discovered two new salamanders, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus duryi and Weller's salamander (Plethodon welleri).

His interest in herpetology, specializing in salamanders, developed when he was a young boy. He explored nearby fields and woods with his friend Karl Maslowski (1913-2006), who went on to become a well known wildlife photographer. Soon Weller was recording observations for the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. Shortly after the director of the museum, Ralph E Dury (1899-?) 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.