Regional botany in mid-nineteenth-century Australia: Mueller's Murray River Collecting Network

Historical Records of Australian Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 389-405

  Orchard, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 44349088028     PISSN: 07273061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HR9971130389     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. F. Mueller, 'Annual Report of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens', in Victorian Parliamentary Papers: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 1859-60 (Melbourne,1860), p.5.
2. L. Gilbert, Botanical Investigation of New South Wales 1811-1880 (PhD Thesis, University of New England, 1971), appendix, p.6.
3. Letters by Dallachy were written from Jamieson's Upper Station, Mt Murchison (no date);
4. Beveridge's station, Tyntyndyer, 25 July 1858; and from the Darling, 8 November 1858. Cited in J. H. Maiden, 'Records of Victorian Botanists', Victorian Naturalist, 25 (1908), 107. Research has failed to locate these documents and photographic portraits of Dallachy and Goodwin are not known to exist. The figure on the far left in fig. 3 may be T. H. Goodwin.
5. F. Mueller, 'Report on the Plants Collected during Mr Babbage's Expedition into the North-Western Interior of South Australia in 1858', in Victorian Parliamentary Papers: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 1859 (Melbourne, 1859), p. 18.
6. F. Mueller, 'Annual Report of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Garden', in Victorian Parliamentary Papers: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly (Melbourne, 1858), pp. 6, 8.
7. W. Blandowski, 'Recent Discoveries in Natural History on the Lower Murray', Philosophical Institute of Victoria, Transactions and Proceedings, 23 (1857-58), 126. See also Sunraysia Daily, 6 February 1922.
8. Mueller, op. cit. (n. 4).
9. J. L. G. Krefft, 'Narrative of an Exploring Expedition led by William Blandowski 1856-7', in Krefft Papers, Mitchell Library, Sydney, MLA268, vol. 8, p.3.
10. South Australian Register, Adelaide, 14 June 1862, p.1. The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, holds an incomplete set of 51 stereographs from the series Stereoscopic Views of the River Murray. The number sequence runs from 1 to 60. The set was originally advertised for sale in 1862 as a set of 56 views.
11. South Australian Register, Adelaide, 10 June 1862, p. 2.
12. L. Gillbank, 'Mueller's Naming of Places and Plants in Central Australia - Victorian Eponyms', Victorian Naturalist, 113 (1996), 219-26; p. 221.
13. See also F. Mueller, 'Annual Report', (1861-2), p. 10.
14. W. R. Elliott and D. L. Jones, Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants Suitable for Cultivation (Sydney, 1984), p. 372.
15. The lectotype of Duboisia hopwoodii was collected by Dr Hermann Beckler, the Medical Officer attached to the Victoria Exploring Expedition of 1860. The specimen, now housed in the National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne, was collected on 28 September 1860 at Aurumpo Homestead, near the Walls of China, Lake Mungo. See J. Willis, 'The Botany of the Victoria Exploration Expedition (September 1860-June 1861) and of Relief Contingents from Victoria (July 1861-November 1862)', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 75 (1962).
16. Gillbank, op. cit. (n. 11).
17. J. Allen, Journal of an Experimental Trip by the 'Lady Augusta' on the River Murray (Adelaide, 1853), pp. 52-3.
18. Mueller, 'Annual Report' (1854), p.3.
19. ibid., pp. 3-4.
20. Mueller to John Foster, Albury, 15 January 1854;
21. F54/733, unit 203, VPRS 1189, Public Records Office, Victoria.
22. Argus, 8 February 1854, p. 5.
23. 'Journal of a Naturalist', Argus, 28 February-20 May 1850.
24. Gillbank, op. cit. (n. 11), p.224.
25. Mueller, 'Monthly Report to J. O'Shannassy for November, 1858', Mueller Correspondence Project, University of Melbourne.
26. Mueller, 60.01.12; 69.03.08; 73.05.15, Mueller Correspondence Project, University of Melbourne.
27. Mueller to Barlee, 24 February 1867; collection of Mrs J. Laging, Belmont, Victoria.
28. Australasian, 24 April 1867.
29. A. Callaway and H. Johnson, (eds), Australian Journal of Art, 14 (forthcoming, 1997).
30. Henry Bishop and Bertha Hughan were married in March 1865. I am indebted to Mrs J. Laging, Belmont, Victoria for this information.
31. Collection of Mr G. Oakley, Yarrawonga, Victoria.
32. Sunraysia Daily, 1 September 1921, p. 1.
33. Mueller, The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria (Melbourne, 1862), p. 53.
34. ibid., Plate 9. Ludwig Becker had perished in the desert region north of Menindee on the Darling River while employed as the official botanist and artist of the Victoria Exploring Expedition.
35. Mueller, op. cit., pp. 3-4.
36. Mueller to John O'Shannassy, G58/6593, unit 745, VPRS 1189 Public Records Office, Victoria, 1854.
37. E. Morey, 'Reminiscences of a Pioneer in New South Wales', Sydney Mail, 15 January-29 January 1908.
38. Mueller, 'Annual General Report of the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens', Victorian Parliamentary Papers: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly (1858, p.6);
39. (1859-60, p.6);
40. (1860-1, p. 4);
41. (1861-2, p. 10);
42. (1862-3, p. 6);
43. (1869, p. 19).
44. E. W. Andrews, 'The Navigation of the Murray', South Australian Almanack (Adelaide, 1854), pp. 217-8.
45. E. Morey, op. cit. (n. 33).
46. E. W. Cole, Diary, Murray River/Table of Accounts 1862-65, private collection, Melbourne.
47. Eighteen months prior to Burnell and Cole's visit, the PS Moolgewanke played an important role in the Victoria Exploring Expedition, shipping eight tons of stores and equipment belonging to the Expedition up the Darling River from Albemarle Station, owned by Joseph and John Phelps, to Menindee. See T. Bonyhady, Burke and Wills from Melbourne to Myth (Sydney, 1991), p. 99.
48. D. Eastburn, Eucalyptus Distillery, Euston (Balranald, 1984).
49. C. Turnley, Cole of the Book Arcade: A Pictorial Biography of E. W. Cole (Melbourne, 1974), p. 28.
50. Mueller, op. cit., p. 6. Mueller gives Cole's place of residence as Castlemaine where he had lived since arriving in Australia in 1852. At the completion of his Murray River journey, Cole returned to Melbourne where he eked out a living until starting his book business in 1865 (Turnley, op. cit. [n. 40], p. 28).