Notes [manuscript].

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Notes [manuscript].

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Manuscript botanical notes supplied by Baron von Mueller to Miss Jessie Louise Hussey, of South Australia [an amateur collector of plants, including algae.] Each list of notes ends as a personal letter. References to von Mueller's collaboration with George Bentham in 1866 in producing 3rd vol. of Universal flora of Australia, and to death in 1895 of J. Bracebridge Wilson, botanist and headmaster of Geelong Grammar School. Enquiry re relatives of the geologist Spottiswood Wilson, who was with von Mueller in A. C. Gregory's Northern Australian expedition in 1855. Collection includes an autographed photo portrait of von Mueller, addressed to Miss Hussey, and a printed in memoriam pamphlet describing von Mueller's funeral, written by Rev. W. Potter.

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Hussey, Jessie Louise

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Mueller, Ferdinand ˜vonœ 1825-1896

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Botanist and explorer, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne from 1857 to 1873 and Government Botanist from 1857 till his death in 1896. From the description of Letter of Ferdinand Von Mueller [manuscript]. 1894. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225758314 Botanist. Came to Australia in 1847. Appointed botanist to the North West Australian expedition under A.C. Gregory in 1855, travelling 5000 miles in sixteen months and observing 2000 species of plants. Re...