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Author: Helena Forde Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists Languages : en Pages :
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Single page letter addressed to a Mr Watkins and accompanying single sheet list of plants collected at Pambula, New South Wales from September to May 1898-1899. The note and list offer insight into Helena Forde's collecting during this time (1 folder).
Author: Helena Forde Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists Languages : en Pages :
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Single page letter addressed to a Mr Watkins and accompanying single sheet list of plants collected at Pambula, New South Wales from September to May 1898-1899. The note and list offer insight into Helena Forde's collecting during this time (1 folder).
Author: Penny Olsen Publisher: National Library Australia ISBN: 0642277532 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 246
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Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Mueller's network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.
Author: Caroline Jordan Publisher: Melbourne University ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 256
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As amateurs, these women worked in sketchbooks rather than on canvas; in pencil and watercolour rather than in oils, and in miniature rather than full scale. They employed the genres deemed suitable for their gender: miniature portraits, flower paintings and picturesque landscapes.
Author: Ferdinand von Mueller Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783906757100 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 922
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Of German origin, Ferdinand von Mueller migrated to Australia in 1847. Government Botanist of Victoria for 43 years until his death in 1896, he was Australia's greatest scientist of the 19th century - a major contributor to international science, an intrepid explorer of parts of Australia previously unknown to Europeans, and a dominant figure in the scientific and intellectual life of his adopted country. Throughout his working life, Mueller kept up an enormous correspondence. Large numbers of letters by or to him have been located throughout the world, and edited for publication. These constitute a major new research tool for both Australian historians and historians of science. They are also of fundamental importance to Australian taxonomic botany, for Mueller introduced vast numbers of Australian plants to western science. This is the third and final volume of Mueller's selected correspondence. It covers the last two decades of his life - his most productive period from a scientific point of view - including his work as Government Botanist of Victoria; his multifarious contributions to taxonomy, biogeography and economic botany; his engagement with the exploration of inland Australia, New Guinea and Antarctica; his manifold links with international science; and his evolving personal circumstances as one of the leading citizens of his adopted country. This volume contains a substantial historical introduction, and a further extension of the editorial apparatus developed in previous volumes.