Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
BIOGRAPHY
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Before arriving in Sydney in 1832, Anderson had collected in Sierra
Leone, Ascension Island, Brazil and Chile. He was botanical collector
on King's voyages (1818-1821), Succeeded Allan
Cunningham as New South Wales Colonial Botanist and Superintendent
of the Botanic Gardens from 1838. His collections were sent to Kew,
with others now in CGE, G, GOET, MO, NSW'and OXF.
Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed. ABRS. [consult for source references]