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C1887
Victorian Waratah Telopea oreades. F.V.M.
Colonial engraving of the Victorian Waratah first described by Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896). Common name: Gippsland or Victorian Waratah Modern binomial name: Telopea oreades First scientific description: 1861 von Mueller Distribution: VIC References: Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Victorian Waratah Telopea oreades. F.V.M.
Date:
C1887
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
150mm
x 100mm
Frame Size:
360mm
x 310mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1887
Description:
Colonial engraving of the Victorian Waratah first described by Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896).
Common name: Gippsland or Victorian Waratah
Modern binomial name: Telopea oreades
First scientific description: 1861 von Mueller
Distribution: VIC
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 16439.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4084242
State Library Victoria: CCF 994.5 V66S
State Library New South Wales: 74Vv5vQ4lxmZ
Ferdinand von Mueller (1825 - 1895)
Von Mueller was a botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847. Appointed inaugural government botanist in Melbourne in 1853, over the next few years he collected specimens of much of Victoria’s native vegetation, spending many months in previously-unexplored alpine country. As botanist to the North Australian Exploring Expedition in 1855, he travelled 8 000 km in 16 months, identifying some 800 new species and finding them their place in the universal classification system developed by Linnaeus. In 1857 he was appointed director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, but their progress was slow and he was replaced in 1873. By that time, he had been appointed a baron by the King of Württemberg; he was appointed KCMG in 1879. Seeing both the commercial potential of native forests, and the need to preserve them, in the late 1870s he prepared a report on the resources of Western Australia, advocating the establishment of a forest administration. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical, Linnaean and Royal Societies and was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1888.
