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John Dallachy (1804–71): Collecting Botanical Specimens at Rockingham Bay (2020)

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Warning Readers of this article are warned that it may contain terms, descriptions and opinions that are culturally sensitive and/or offensive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. John Dallachy (1804–71) was employed by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller to collect plants as a pioneer resident of Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, Queensland, 1864–71. Mueller’s longest-serving paid botanical collector, Dallachy was also the most prolific collector of types among Mueller’s large network of collectors. In part, Dallachy’s success can be attributed to his collecting methods and intensive travels around the species-rich Rockingham Bay area. In part, also, Dallachy was indebted to fellow European pioneers for support (which was acknowledged in the eponymy of new taxa), and to local Indigenous and South Sea Islander people. Dallachy managed these relationships in a context of frontier war as local Indigenous people resisted being displaced by European colonists. Nevertheless, Dallachy’s opportunity to work as a full-time professional botanical collector, and the rapidity with which his new specimens were identified and published was, to a large extent, due to Mueller. The partnership with Mueller led to Dallachy contributing ~3500 specimens from Rockingham Bay to the Melbourne Herbarium of which ~400 taxa were considered new to Western science.

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Authors & Contributors
Dowe, John Leslie
Matthew Fishburn
Maroske, Sara
Craig R. Macadam
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Poppy Nicol
Concepts
Collectors and collecting
Biological specimens
Botany
Natural history
Specimen exchange
Collections
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Australia
London (England)
United Kingdom
Antarctica
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Tasmania (Australia)
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
London Zoo
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Zoological Society of London
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