Published Resources Details
Teaching resource
- Title
- Dadswell Memorial Wood Collection
- Description of Work
- Maintained by the CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products Division, Clayton, Victoria. A subset is located at The University of Melbourne Creswick Campus library.
- Imprint
- 2011
- Url
- http://www.pi.csiro.au/aus_biological_collections/other.html
- Abstract
This collection contains over 45,000 samples representing 10,000 species, 2200 genera and 240 botanical families. Approximately fifty percent of the wood specimens have been sectioned and slides prepared. The collection is maintained by the CSIRO.
A sub-set of the collection, containing approximately 230 samples, was donated in 2012 to The University of Melbourne Creswick Campus library.
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Corporate Bodies
- CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark I), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1988 - 1990)
- The University of Melbourne (1853 - )