Article ID: CBB799976214

F. Mueller, ‘The Murray-scrub, Sketched Botanically’, 1850: A Humboldtian Description of Mallee Vegetation (2016)

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Although best known as a descriptive botanist, Ferdinand Mueller published an early account of the South Australian Mallee in the style of his scientific hero, Alexander von Humboldt. This vegetation type is found across southern arid Australia and includes several distinctive botanical features that Mueller sought to highlight. While his article was republished twice, each issue was in German and consequently this work has tended to be overlooked in scholarship on the history of Australian botany. Mueller's article is introduced here along with a translation into English for the first time.

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Authors & Contributors
Maroske, Sara
Lucas, A. M.
Home, Roderick W.
Moore, D. T.
Dowe, John Leslie
Voigt, Johannes H.
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Archives of Natural History
Australian Heritage
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Peter Lang
University of Pittsburgh Press
Surrey Beatty & Sons
Stanford University Press
Prestel
ABRS
Concepts
Botany
Travel; exploration
Classification in biology
Collected correspondence
Naturalists
Geography
People
Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von
Humboldt, Alexander von
Leichhardt, Ludwig
Brown, Robert
Dallachy, John
Bowman, Edward Macarthur
Time Periods
19th century
Places
Australia
New South Wales (Australia)
Americas
South America
Portugal
Oceanic Islands
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