Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)

Summary

Ferdinand von Mueller was the first Government Botanist of Victoria and held the post for 43 years from 1853 until his death. From 1857-1873 Mueller was Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and in 1855-1856 was botanist to the North Australian Exploring Expedition. He was the inaugural president, Royal Society of Victoria, 1860. During his career he wrote over 800 papers and articles on different aspects of botany. He was the author of many Eucalyptus species, several of which are now recognised as species of Corymbia. The plant genera Muelleranthus (Fabaceae) and Muellerina (Loranthaceae) were named in his honour. For more information see the Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project.

Details

In addition to his involvement with the Royal Society of Victoria Ferdinand von Mueller was a council member of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science (1854); council member of the Philosophical Society of Victoria (1854); first honorary member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, (1855) and its president in 1859; and president of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia and vice-president of the Society as a whole, 1883-96.

Editor's note: In the list of publications below, there are many entries for resources about Mueller but only few select entries of the over 800 publications by Mueller himself. Those entries have been included as they are important evidence for other entries for people, organisations or other things in the Encyclopedia. It is not the policy of the Encyclopedia to publish comprehensive scientifc publication lists for people but to cite those lists where available or hold copies in our files. These can be supplied upon request. For a comprehensive list of Mueller's publications see Churchill, Muir and Sinkora (1978, supplement 1984). The Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project based at the National Herbarium of Victoria aims to find, edit and publish Mueller's prolific correspondence, with the cooperation of the repositories holding these letters, and ultimately produce a searchable database. Other outputs of the Project include biographical notes on Mueller's contacts, correspondents, and those after who he named plants; lists of his honours and awards; additions to the list of his publications; and a chronology of life events.

Chronology

1853 - 1896

Career position - Government Botanist of Victoria, Australia

1854 - 1855

Career Position - Council Member, Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, Australia

1854 - 1855

Career Position - Council Member, The Philosophical Society of Victoria, Australia

1855 - 1856

Career position - Botanist to the North Australian Exploring Expedition

1855 - 1859

Career Position - Honorary Member, The Philosophical Institute of Victoria, Australia

1857 - 1859

Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1873

Career position - Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia

1859

Career Position - President, The Philosophical Institute of Victoria, Australia

1859

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus dichromophloia F.Muell.

1859

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus patellaris F.Muell.

1859

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus tetrodonta F.Muell.

1859

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus tessellaris F.Muell.

1859 - 1873

Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria

1860

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus ficifolia F.Muell.

1860

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus microcorys F.Muell.

1860

Career Position - President, Royal Society of Victoria, Australia

1863

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus diversicolor F.Muell.

1870 - 1871

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell.

1879

Award - Elected as an Honorary Member, Adelaide Philosophical Society

1882

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus todtiana F.Muell.

1883

Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

1888 - 1890

Career position - President, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1890

Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt

1895

Career position - President, Section E (Geography), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1868; Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts. Details

Archives Office of Tasmania

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1869 - 1870, CSD7/28/296; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1871, CSD7/45/845; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1860, CSD1/45/391; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1880 - 1890, O9 M9; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

The Linnean Society of New South Wales

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1892 - 1893; The Linnean Society of New South Wales. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Anna Frances Walker - Records, 1806 - 1910, PXD 38-2; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Augustus Charles Gregory - Records, 1842 - 1903, MS 191-8 and Q420-42; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Clarke Family Papers - Records, 1789 - 1879, ML MSS 139; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• David Lindsay - Records, 1878 - 1924, ML MSS 200; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, c. 1885 - c. 1893, Am 27; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 581.61 2C1; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1862 - 1873, ML MSS 562; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• George Ernest Morrison - Records, 1850 - 1932, ML MSS 312; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Georgina King - Records, 1888 - 1921, ML MSS 2117; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Gerard Krefft - Records, 1881, A263; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• H. Parkes - Records, A925; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Henry William Potts - Records, 1882 - 1967, ML MSS 2697; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• James Erskine Calder - Records, 1831 - 1876, A605; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• John Brown - Records, 1821 - 1867, A271; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Linnean Society of New South Wales - Records, 1826 - 1970, ML MSS 2009; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• New Guinea Mission - Papers, 1886 - 1889, A406; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia - Records, 1833 - 192?, ML MSS 2134; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch - Records, 1883 - 1906, ML MSS 853; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch - Records, 1883 - 1907, ML MSS 774; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales Branch - Records, A2664; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch - Records, A39; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch - Records, A38; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Royal Park Zoological Society - Records, 1862 - 1885, A345; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• William Branwhite Clarke - Records, 1858 - 1878, ML MSS 3608; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• William Montagu Manning - Records, 1811 - 1895, ML MSS 246; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1847, MSS M42; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1894, MSS M22; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1888 - 1896, MSS M23; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1877 - 1896, MSS M26; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, c. 1887, MSS M27; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1895 - 1896, MSS M29; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1888 - 1889, MSS M31; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1891 - 1895, MSS M32; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1857 - 1859, MSS M34; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1847, MSS M43; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1890, MSS M52; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1888 - 1895, MSS M33; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1894, MSS M28; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1857 - 1889, MSS M35; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
• William Jackson Hooker - Records, 1854 - 1863, MSS M2; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1858 - 1896; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Powerhouse Museum

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1883 - 1896, MRS 4, 7, 10, 12, 13, 125 ...; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Royal Society of Tasmania

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1867 - 1891, RSA/B.13; Royal Society of Tasmania. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Correspondence re a proposed Antarctic expedition, 1890 - 1897, D 7520(L); State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Davenport Family - Records, PRG 40; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1893 - 1895, D 4704(L); State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Friedrich Krichauff - Records, 1840 - 1948, PRG 715; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Sir Henry Ayers - Records, 1873, D 3141(L); State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1857 - 1896, MS 5088, 580/1, H 16497 etc; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

State Records of South Australia

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1861 - 1896, 970/5&12 and others; State Records of South Australia. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1873 - 1896, 61/12; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1867 - 1881, C 7/64-66 and others; University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection. Details

Western Australia Herbarium

• Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1892 - 1896, 58(044) Mue; Western Australia Herbarium. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Articles

• Newell, Jennifer and Sutherland, Denise, 'Scientists and Colonists', Australasian Science, Summer (1997), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_colonists.htm. Details

Books

• Bentham, George and Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Flora Australiensis (London: Lovell-Reeve, 1863). Details
• Chisholm, A. H., Ferdinand von Mueller (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1962). Details
• Home, R. W., Science as a German Export to Nineteenth-Century Australia (London: Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1995), 21 pp. Details
• Home, R. W., A distant authority: Ferdinand (von) Mueller, the communication of ideas, and the colonial search for international standing in science (Melbourne: Ancora Press: Monash University, 2016), 20 pp. Details
• Jahn, Ilse and Schmidt, Isolde, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Müller (1825-1896): Ein Australienforscher aue Rostock und die Universität Rostock (Rostock, Germany: Universität Rostock, 1996). Details
• Kynaston, Edward, A Man on Edge: a life of of Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller (London; Ringwood: Allen Lane, 1981). Details
• McConville, Andrew, In search of the last continent: Australia and early Antarctic exploration (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022), 227 pp. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand Baron von, Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858-82) (Melbourne: auctoritate gubern. coloni Victori, ex officina Joannis Ferres, 1858). Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand von, Introduction to botanic teachings at the schools of Victoria : through references to leading native plants (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, ), 152 pp. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1879-1884). http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924074094446#page/n437/mode/2up/. Details
• Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982), 212 pp. Details
• Tietkens, W. H., Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, 1889, under command of W.H. Tietkens, despatched by the Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Association, Limited, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1891), 84 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/60481. Details
• Voigt, Johannes H., Die Erforschung Australiens: Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Pettermann and Ferdinand von Mueller 1861-1878 (Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag, 1996), 159 pp. Details
• Willis, Margaret, By Their Fruits. A life of Ferdinand von Mueller (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

Book Sections

• Gillbank, L.; and Maroske, S., 'Behind the botany of the Horn Expedition: Ferdinand Mueller's documentation of the larapintine flora' in Exploring central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, Morton, S. R. and Mulvaney, D. J., eds (Chipping Norton, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1996), pp. 209-21. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Scientific Exploration of the Botanical Heritage of Victoria's Alps: Nineteenth - and Twentieth-Century Contributions of Ferdinand Mueller and Maisie Fawcett' in Cultural Heritage of the Australian Alps: Proceedings of the Symposium held at Jindabyne, New South Wales, 16-18 October, 1991, Babette Scougall, ed. (Canberra: Australian Alps Liaison Committee, 1992), pp. 211-234. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Scientific and public duties: Ferdinand Mueller's forest contributions to exhibitions and a museum' in Seize the day: exhibitions, Australia and the world, Darian-Smith, Kate, Gillespie, Richard, Hordan, Caroline and Willis, Elizabeth, eds (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University ePress, 2008), pp. 07.1-07.18. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'The Botanical Legacy of Ferdinand Mueller and Hermann Beckler' in Burke and Wills: the Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition, Joyce, E. Bernie and McCann, Douglas A., eds (Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011), pp. 97-129. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Emigrants or Scientific Travellers? Ferdinand Mueller and Georg Neumayer between Germany and Australia' in Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, Ellen I. Mitchell, ed. (Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe University, 2000), pp. 11-23. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von ' in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Koertge, Noretta, ed., vol. 5 (Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 204-209 . Details
• Kynaston, Edward, 'Exploration as Escape: Sir Ferdinand von Mueller' in From Berlin to the Burdekin: The German Contribution to the Development of Australian Science, Exploration and the Arts, David Walker and Jurgen Tampke, eds (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1991), pp. 3-21. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Baron von Mueller: Protege Turned Patron' in Australian Science in the Making, R. W. Home, ed. (Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 133-152. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, 1825-1896' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853-96' in Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, Ellen I. Mitchell, ed. (Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe University, 2000), pp. 24-34. Details
• Morris, Deirdre, 'Mueller, Baron Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich Von (1825-1896), botanist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 5 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 306-308. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050353b.htm. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Ferdinand Mueller, Immigrant Scientist, 1825-96' in The German Connection: Sesquicentanary Essays on German-Victorian Crosscurrents, L. Bodi and S. Jeffries, eds (Melbourne: Monash University, Department of German, 1985), pp. 29-41. Details
• Sinkora, D. M., 'Mueller bibliography, [2nd ed.]' in Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, volume I: 1840-1859, Home, R. W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M. and Voigt, J.H., eds (Bern: Peter Lang, 1998), pp. 565-685. Details
• Willis, J. H., 'Baron von Mueller's Travels in the Australian Alps, 1853-61' in The Scientific Significance of the Australian Alps: The Proceedings of the First Fenner Conference on the Environment, Roger Good, ed. (Canberra: Australian Alps Liaison Committee, 1989), pp. 381-382. Details

Conference Papers

• Gillbank, Linden, 'Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Victorian Forests: Ideas and Concerns of Ferdinand Mueller', in Australia's Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australia's Forest History, Creswick, 1992 edited by John Dargavel and Sue Feary (Creswick: ANU Society, 1992), pp. 3-14.. Details
• Grandison, R., 'The 1851 Botanical Excursion of Ferdinand Mueller to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia', in History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 edited by Short, P.S. (Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society, 1990), pp. 109-114.. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 35-38.. Details

Edited Books

• Ferdinand von Müller, 1825-1896: Spuren eines australischen Botanikers in seiner Geburtsstadt Rostock (Rostock: Universität Rostock, 1998), 94 pp. Details
• Home, R. W.; Lucas, A. M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D. M.; and Voigt, J. H. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 2, 1860-1875, vol. 2 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), 865 pp. Details
• Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; and Voigt, J.H. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 1, 1840-1859, vol. 1 (Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 1998), 850 pp. Details
• Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; Voigt, J.H.; and Wells, M. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 3, 1876-1896, vol. 3 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), 909 pp. Details

Journals

• Grey, Ed and Grey, Pat, eds., 'Special issue 'to acknowledge and remember the Baron [von Mueller], and while it deals with the wider aspects of Mueller's involvement with natural history, the central issue is his association with [The Field Naturalists] Club [of Victoria]'.', The Victorian naturalist, 113, 1996, 128-228 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Adams, Laurence G., 'The orthography of Mueller's epithets commemorating Wilhelm Bäuerlen', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 24 (1980), 8-10. Details
• Albrecht, D., 'Eden Revisited ... Mueller's 1860 Journey to Twofold Bay-Genoa District', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 171-180. Details
• Archer, B.; Maroske, S., 'Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 188-194. Details
• Aston, Helen, 'Villarsia - One of Mueller's Puzzles', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 151-152. Details
• Best, H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, the Man.', The Victorian naturalist, 65 (October) (1948), 132-137. Details
• Brown-May, A.; and Maroske, S., 'Breaking into the quietude: re-reading the personal life of Ferdinand von Mueller', Public History Review, 3 (1994), 36-63. Details
• Burdon, A., 'Taking Stock', Australian Geographic (1997), 46-67. Details
• Campbell, W.S., 'Recollections of "The Baron".', The Victorian naturalist, 52 (September) (1935), 79-82. Details
• Cavanagh, Tony, 'The Victorian Government Printer and Early Scientific Publishing in Victoria: Ferdinand von Mueller, the Royal Society and R. Brough Smyth', Riverina Library Review, 5 (4) (1988), 263-276. Details
• Churchill, D. M.; Muir, T. M.; Sinkora, D. M., 'The Published Works of Ferdinand J. H. Mueller (1825-1896)', Muelleria, 4 (1) (1978), 1-120. Details
• Churchill, D. M.; Muir, T. M.; Sinkora, D. M., 'The Published Works of Ferdinand J. H. Mueller (1825-1896), Supplement', Muelleria, 5 (4) (1984), 229-248. Details
• Cohn, Helen M., 'Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist: the role of William Hooker in his appointment', Muelleria, 7 (1989), 99-102. Details
• Cohn, Helen M., 'Mueller and the North Australian Exploring Expedition', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 163-168. Details
• Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara, 'Relief from Duties of Minor Importance - the Removal of Baron von Mueller from the Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 103-127. Details
• Daley, Charles, 'Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. KCMG, MD, FRS Botanist, Explorer, Geographer', Victorian Historical Magazine, 10 (1924), 23-32 & 34-75. Details
• Daley, Charles, 'The History of Flora Australiensis', The Victorian naturalist, 47 (November) (1930), 113-115. Details
• Darragh, T. A., 'Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Trobe', La Trobeana: the newsletter of the La Trobe Society of Australia, 2 (2) (2004), 1-5. Details
• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Mueller and Personal Names in Zoology and Palaeontology', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 195-197. Details
• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Bishop Goold and Ferdinand von Mueller: a 30 Year Acquaintance', Footprints: Journal of the Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, June (2003), 3-9. Details
• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Ludwig Leichhardt: four previously unknown letters to John Nicholson and the involvement of Ferdinand von Mueller in publishing Leichhardt's letters', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (2) (2018), 153-61. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR18006. Details
• Darragh, Thomas A.; and Lucas, A. M., 'Two states of fascicle 1 of Mueller's Fragmenta phytographiae australiae', Archives of Natural History, 39 (2) (2015), 301-7. Details
• Darragh, Tom, 'Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Trobe: 'So many signs of benevolence and favour'', La Trobeana, 11 (3) (2012), 25-9. Details
• Dowe, J. L.; May, T. W.; Maroske, S.; and Smith, L. T., 'The Wehl family of South Australia and their botanical connections with "Dear Uncle" Baron Ferdinand von Mueller', Swainsona, 34 (1) (2020), 1-79. Details
• Dowe, John Leslie, 'Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the "Princeps of Australian botany", and a historical account of his Australasian palms', Palms, 61 (1) (2016), 21-40. Details
• Dowe, John Leslie, 'Odoardo Beccari and Enrico D'Albertis in Australia and New Zealand, 1878: botanical and zoological collections', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 150 (2) (2016), 27-41. Details
• Dowe, John Leslie, '"Such superfluity of genera": Ferdinand Mueller's criticism of generic limits in Wendland and Drude's "Palmae australasicae" of 1875', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (2) (2018), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR17025. Details
• Dowe, John Leslie, 'Ferdinand Mueller in Western Australia in 1877, with notes on his later contributions to the Western Australian flora', Nuytsia, 34 (2023), 157-78. https://doi.org/10.58828/nuy01057. Details
• Dowe, John Leslie and Maroske, Sara, '"These princely plants": Ferdinand Mueller and the naming of Australasian plants', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1) (2016), 13-27, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15014. Details
• Dwyer, John, 'William Swainson: La Trobe's other botanical appoimtnent', La Trobeana: journal of the C. J. La Trobe Society Inc., 19 (3) (2020), 26-36. https://www.latrobesociety.org.au/LaTrobeana/LaTrobeanaV19n3.pdf. Details
• Dwyer, Ruth, 'Baron von Mueller at Adelaide', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 139-140. Details
• Dwyer, Ruth, 'To Honour a Noted Botanist', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 208-209. Details
• Endersby, Ian, 'Mueller's Oceanic Island Plants', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 181-184. Details
• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 'A Man on Edge: a Life of Baron Sir Ferdinarnd von Mueller, by Edward Kynaston', Historical Studies, 20 (1982), 154-155. Details
• Frost, William and Harvey, Sarah, 'Forest Industries or Dairy Pastures? Ferdinand von Mueller and the 1885-1893 Royal Commission on Vegetable Products', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 431-438. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130431. Details
• Gemmell, N., 'Some Notes on Ferdinand von Mueller and the Early Settlement of Bugle Ranges', South Australian Naturalist, 49 (4) (1975), 51-64. Details
• George, Alex S., 'Eucalyptus Cigars, Ferdinand Mueller and Prosper Vincent Ramel', Archives of Natural History, 39 (2012), 347-9. Details
• Gilbert, Lionel, 'From Joseph Banks to Joseph Maiden: Towards a Scientific Botanic Garden', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 283-310. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130283. Details
• Gillbank, L., 'Mueller's Naming of Places and Plants in Central Australia', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 219-226. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'The Origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: Practical Science in the Wake of the Gold Rush', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (3) (1986), 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630359. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Alpine Botanical Expeditions of Ferdinand Mueller', Muelleria, 7 (4) (1992), 529-553. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Of weeds and other introduced species: Ferdinand Mueller and plant and animal acclimatisation in colonial Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 124 (2) (2007), 69-78. Details
• Gillbank, Linden and Maroske, Sara, 'Fourteen plants and a fungus: Ferdinand Mueller's taxonomic imprint on the flora of the Buffalo Range', The Victorian naturalist, 115 (1998), 188-91. Details
• Gillbank, Linden Rae, 'The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria', Victorian historical journal, 51 (4) (1980), 255-70. Details
• Grandison, R., 'Mueller's Excursions in the Murray Scrub 1848-1851', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 152-162. Details
• Grandison, Ralph E., 'Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, KCMG (1825-1896)', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch, 85 (1985), 22-24, 42. Details
• Haas, L.F., 'Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Muller (1825-96)', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 65 (1) (1998), 9. Details
• Hardy, A. D., 'Excerpts From letters to Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller', Victorian Historical Magazine, 21 (1945), 1-23. Details
• Heathcote, J.; and Maroske, S., 'Drifting sands and Marram grass on the south-west coast of Victoria in the last century', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 10-5. Details
• Home, R. W., 'The Scientific Savant in Nineteenth Century Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 283-454, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130281. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Ferdinand Mueller: Migration and the Sense of Self', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 311-324. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130311. Details
• Home, R. W., 'A Botanist for a Continent: Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-96)', Endeavour, 22 (2) (1998), 72-75. Details
• Home, R. W., 'La Trobe's 'honest looking German': Ferdinand Mueller and the botanical exploration of gold-rush Victoria', La Trobeana: the newsletter of the La Trobe Society of Australia, 11 (3) (2012), 9-16. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Ferdinand Mueller's Alpine Itinerary', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14003. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Ferdinand Mueller and the Royal Society of Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127 (1) (2015), 105-9, https://doi.org/10.1071/RS15012. Details
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• Home, R. W.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand von Mueller and the French Consuls', Explorations: a Bulletin Devoted to the Study of Franco-Australian Links, 18 (June 1995; issued December 1997) (1995), 3-50. Details
• Houghton, Sheila, 'Baron von Mueller and The Victorian Naturalist', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 140-142. Details
• Jeffries, Stephen, 'Alexander von Humboldt and Ferdinand von Mueller's Argument for the Scientific Botanic Garden', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 301-310, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130301. Details
• Kantvilas, G., 'A Brief History of Lichenology in Tasmania, Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 117 (1983), 41-52. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Letters, Shipwrecks and Taxonomic Confusion: Establishing a Reputation from Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 10 (3) (1995), 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9951030207. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Assistance at a Distance: George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller and the Production of the Flora australiensis', Archives of Natural History, 30 (2003), 255-281. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Ferdinand von Mueller's interactions with Charles Darwin and His Response to Darwinism', Archives of Natural History, 37 (2010), 102-30. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Zoological Eponyms Honouring the Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller', Archives of Natural History, 40 (2013), 263-9. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Specimens and the Currency of Honour: the Museum Trade of Ferdinand von Mueller', Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1) (2013), 15-39, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12016. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'The Difficult Provenance of Ferdinand von Mueller's Zoological Specimens', Archives of Natural History, 41 (2) (2014), 294-308. Details
• Lucas, A. M.; and Lucas, P. J., 'Natural History "Collectors": Exploring the Ambiguities', Archives of Natural History, 41 (1) (2014), 63-74. Details
• Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara; and Brown-May, Andrew, 'Bringing Science to the Public: Ferdinand von Mueller and Botanical Education in Victorian Victoria', Annals of Science, 63 (1) (2006), 25-57. Details
• Mace, Bernard, 'Mueller - Champion of Victoria's Giant Trees', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 198-207. Details
• Maiden, J., 'Brief memories of Baron von Mueller. in Presidential Address', xivi (1912), 8-11. Details
• Maiden, J. H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller [obituary]', Agricultural gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1896), 742-5. Details
• Maroske, S., 'Planting the Melbourne General Cemetery: the contribution of Ferdinand von Mueller', Australian garden history, 2 (5) (1991), 3-7. Details
• Maroske, S.; and Brown-May, A., 'Horticultural embellishments: public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Garden, 1870', Australian garden history, 4 (4) (1993), 8-14. Details
• Maroske, S.; and May, A., 'Public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1870', Australian Garden History, 4 (4) (1993), 8-14. Details
• Maroske, S.; Sinkora, D.; and Cohn, Helen M., 'Ferdinand von Mueller's library', Botanic magazine, 4 (1992), 17-23. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand Mueller anniversary', Muelleria, 8 (3) (1995), 395-8. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'The Private Life of a Public Figure: Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, 1825-1896', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 335-344, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130335. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'The fate of the Cranbourne meteorites', The Victorian naturalist, 118 (2001), 305-8. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand Mueller and the Shape of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Systems of Plant Classification', Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (2) (2006), 147-168, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06010. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Educational Exsiccatae: Ferdinand von Mueller's Botanical Lessons in Colonial Victoria', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, 2 (2007), 37-47. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Australian and Indian Plants: Making Connexions in Nineteenth-Century Botany', Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (2) (2012), 107-29, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12013. Details
• Maroske, Sara, '"A Taste for Botanic Science": Ferdinand Mueller's Female Collectors and the History of Australian Botany', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 72-91. Details
• Maroske, Sara and Cohn, Helen M., 'Such Ingenious Birds: Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria', Muelleria, 7 (4) (1992), 529-553. Details
• Maroske, Sara and Darragh, Thomas A., 'F. Mueller, "The Murray-scrub, sketched botanically", 1850: a Humboldtian description of Mallee vegetation', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1) (2016), 41-6, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16012. Details
• Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison, 'Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 92-172. Details
• Martin, Susan, 'Mueller and his "Lady" Correspondents', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 185-187. Details
• May, T.; and Maroske, S., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, Exhibitioner Extraordinaire', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 143-145. Details
• McMullen, Gabrielle L., 'Getting to Know Dr Müller: Accounts of Ferndinand von Müller in Victoria's Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Language Newspapers', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 325-334. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130325. Details
• McPhee, C., 'The Botanist at Como: Mueller and the Armytage Family', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 227-228. Details
• Milne, Pina, 'Retracing history through herbarium specimens', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 75-87. Details
• Moore, James, 'Green Gold: the Riches of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 371-388. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130371. Details
• Mueller F., von (as translator), 'The organic constituents of plants and vegetable substances, and their chemical analysis', The Australian Medical Journal (a review), 23 (1878), 117-120. Details
• Mueller, Baron F. von, 'On the Discovery of the therapeutic Properties of Duboisia myoporoides and D. hopwoodii', The Chemist and Druggist, with Australasian Supplement, 1 (1878), 21-22. Details
• Mueller, F., 'Botanical report on the North Australian Exploring Expedition under the command of A. C. Gregory, esq.', Journal of the Linnean Society, botany, 2 (1858), 137-68. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'The Economic Products of Eucalyptus Trees', Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (1871-1872), 628-629. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'Pharmacists as Scientific Investigators', Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (1874-1875), 967-969. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'Note on the "Bitterbark" of New South Wales and Queensland', The Australian Medical Journal, 22 (1877), 338-339. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'Peroxide of hydrogen from Eucalyptus globulus', The Australian Medical Journal, 23 (1878), 59. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'Record of observation on Sir William MacGregor's highland-plants from New Guinea', Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1 (2) (1889), 1-45. Details
• Mueller, F. von, 'Some scientific results of Sir William MacGregor's recent expedition to the Owen-Stanley Range', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, ns, 12 (1890), 103-10. Details
• Mueller, F. von and Rummel, L., 'Note on Two New Vegeto-Alkaloids', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 35 (1879), 31-32. Details
• Mueller, F. von and Tate, R., 'List of plants collected during Mr Tietkens' expedition into Central Australia, 1889', Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 13 (1890), 94-109. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand, 'Australian Medicinal Plants', Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, 15 (1856), 114-116. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand von, 'Notes on Some Rare and Medicinal Plants of Australia', Quarterly Journal and Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, 2 (1859-1860), 43-44. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand von, 'On the therapeutic value of Eucalyptus oil', The Australasian Medical Gazette, 3 (1884), 22-23, 45-49, 66-73. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand von, 'Records of observations on Sir William MacGregor's highland plants from New Guinea', Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, new series, 1 (2) (1889), 1-45. Details
• Mueller, Ferdinand von; Rummel, Ludwig, 'Über Duboisin und Duboisinsäure.', Zeitschrift des Allgemeinen Oesterreichischen Apotheker-Vereines, 18 (1880), 20- ?. Details
• Muir, T. B., 'An Index to the New Taxa, New Combinations and New Names Published by Ferdinand J. H. Mueller', Muelleria, 4 (2) (1979), 123-168. Details
• Orchard, Ken, 'Regional Botany in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia: Mueller's Murray River Collecting Network', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130389. Details
• Paddle, R. N., 'Mueller's Magpies and Marsupial Wolves ...', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 215-218. Details
• Parker, Alan, 'Mueller and the North Australia Expedition', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 169-170. Details
• Parkin, Alan, 'Mueller, Acclimatiser and Seed Merchant', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 213-214. Details
• Parkin, Alan, 'The Mueller Memorial Medal', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 209-210. Details
• Pearson, Michael, 'The good oil: eucalyptus oil distilleries in Australia.', Australasian Historical Archaeology, 11 (1993), 99-107. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Exiled from the Garden: Von Mueller's Correspondence with Kew, 1871-81', Victorian Historical Journal, 48 (1977), 313-320. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'A Letter from the Baron: Von Mueller's Royal Medal, 1888', Royal Australian Historical Society, 63 (1978), 270-274. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'A Baron Under Siege: Von Muller and the Press in the 1870's', Victorian Historical Journal, 50 (1979), 18-35. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller, 1825-1896', Geographers: Bibliographical Studies, 5 (1981), 89-93. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'National Identity and the Gifted Immigration: Baron von Mueller, scientist and public servant, 1825-96', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 3 (1) (1982), 56-61. Details
• Rae, Ian D.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand von Mueller's phytochemical laboratory', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1) (2020), 26-38, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19010. Details
• Ross, J.H., 'The Legacy of Mueller's Collections', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 146-150. Details
• Ross, Jim, 'Some Insights into F. J. H. Mueller's Modus Operandi', Australasian Systematic Botany Newsletter, 84 (September) (1995), 4-6. Details
• Salkin, A. I., 'Short History of the Discovery and Naming of Banksias in Eastern Australia: Part 5, Ferdinand Mueller', The Victorian naturalist, 98 (6) (1981), 254-256. Details
• Sanderson, Rachel, 'Many Beautiful Things: Botanists' Accounts of North Queensland Rainforests', Historical Records of Australian Science, 18 (1) (2007), 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR07004. Details
• Short, Philip, 'Ferdinand Mueller and Early Botanical Activities in the Vicinity of Hermannsburg', Trust News (Victoria), 6 (3) (1989), 8-13. Details
• Stevens, P.F., 'J.D. Hooker, George Bentham, Asa Gray and Ferdinand Mueller on Species Limits in Theory and Practice: a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Debate and its Repercussions', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130345. Details
• Taylor, Angela, 'Baron von Mueller in the Field Naturalists Tradition', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 131-138. Details
• Voigt, Johannes H and Sinkora, Doris M., 'Ferdinand (von) Müller in Schleswig-Holstein, or The Making of a Scientist and of a Migrant', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (1) (1996), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9961110013. Details
• Voigt, Johannes H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller und Württemberg', Beiträge zur Landeskunde: Regelmässige Beilage zum Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg, 5 (October) (1996), 8-13. Details
• Wallace, Ray, 'The Baron and the Goldfield', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 211-212. Details
• Wilkie, Benjamin, 'Ferdinand von Mueller in the Victorian Grampians', Victorian historical journal, 90 (2) (2019), 353-60. Details
• Willis, J. H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller: Nestor of Australian Botany', Australian Journal of Science, 10 (1948), 136-140. Details
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Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/95199327. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/1364148947799954950007. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q708002. Details
• Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; Voigt, J.H.; and Wells, M. [eds], The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 2023, https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/. Details
• 'Mueller, Ferdinand (1825-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-638889. Details
• Weldon, Stephen (editor and lead bibliographer), IsisCB Explore: an open access discovery service for the history of science., History of Science Society, University of Oklahoma, 2015, https://data.isiscb.org/isis/authority/CBA000072022/. Details

Reviews

• Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M., Voigt, J.H.and Wells, M., ed., Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 3, 1876-1896 (2006)
  Holland, Julian, Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (2), (2006), 285-287, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06009. Details
• Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M., and Voigt, J.H. (eds.), Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 1, 1840-1859 (1998)
  Payne, Pauline, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (4), (2003), 543-546. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03010. Details

Theses

• Cohn, Helen M., 'Some Foundations of Science in Victoria in the Decade After Separation', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1990. Details
• Gilbert, L. A., 'Botanical Investigation of New South Wales 1811-1880', PhD thesis, University of New England, 1971. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'Science by Correspondence: Ferdinand Mueller and Botany in Nineteenth Century Australia', PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2005, 238 pp. Details

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• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
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