Contents Preface......................... v
Melbourne: a focal point for early botanical activity -
Politics and the purchase of private herbaria by the National Herbarium of Victoria -
The history of the herbarium, School of Botany, University of Melbourne -
History of early Western Australian herbaria -
History of the Waite Arboretum and Waite Herbarium -
Botanical contributions overlooked: the role and recognition of collectors, horticulturists, explorers and others in the early documentation of the Australian flora -
Early impressions of the vegetation of the Sydney region: exploration and plant use by the First Fleet Officers -
William Baeuerlen - a 'circumspect and zealous' collector -
Retracing the route taken by Robert Brown and company in a portion of the Flinders Ranges -
The 1851 botanical excursion of Ferdinand Mueller to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia -
Carl Wilhelmi, the seedsman from Dresden: his botanical endeavour in South Australia and Victoria -
The contribution of the Russian botanist Turczaninov to Australian plant taxonomy -
The Western Australian collecting localities of J. A. L. Preiss -
Cunningham's collecting localities while botanist on Lieutenant Phillip Parker
King's survey of coastal Australia, December 1817 to April 1822 -
Alexander Morrison (1849-1913) and Edinburgh's botanical connections with Australia -
Moving mountains - Allan Cunningham and the mountains of southern Queensland -
Domin and Daneg in Java and Australia 1909-1910 -
Retracing the botanical steps of Leichhardt and Gilbert in June 1845 -
Hugo Flecker and the North Queensland Naturalists' Club -
Ronald Campbell Gunn 1808-1881 -
Explorers, institutions and outside influences: botany north of Thursday -
Mary Strong Clemens: a botanical collector in New Guinea (1935-1941) -
The botanical collections of John Buchanan F.L.S. -
A comparison of the approach to taxonomic botany by T. F. Cheeseman and L. Cockayne -
The lean legacy of freshwater phycology in Victoria -
Type specimens of bryophytes in Australian herbaria -
Aspects of Australian mycology: 1800-1900 1. -
History of systematic mycology in Australia 1. -
History of the study of Australian Agaricales -
Australian plants cultivated in England, 1771-1800 -
,. . . and flowers for our amusement': the early collecting and cultivation of
Australian plants in Europe and the problems encountered by today's taxonomists -
Early Austrian influence on Australian botany -
Early art work as a source of botanical information in South Australia -
Documenting botanical art collections in Australia -
Building a bibliography: some difficulties, with specialreference to Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2 -
History is now -
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