Corporate Body

School of Botany (1880s - )

The University of Melbourne

From
1880s
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Education and Plant science
Website
http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/botany/
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The University of Melbourne's School of Botany is part of the Faculty of Science. The School works in a number of areas, including environmental science, marine botany, plant molecular and cell biology and biotechnology, plant diseases, and plant biodiversity and evolution. In 1973 the Victorian School of Forestry was amalgamated with the School of Botany.

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Gillbank, Linden, From System Garden to Scientific Research: The University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its First Two Professors (1906-1973) (Parkville, Vic.: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 2010), 38 pp. Details

Conference Papers

  • Clarke, I.C., 'History of the herbarium, School of Botany, University of Melbourne', 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 Inc., 1990), pp. 13-22.. Details

Journal Articles

  • Brown, Gillian, 'Mosses, liverworts and hornworts: significant bryophyte collections at the University of Melbourne Herbarium', University of Melbourne Collections, 8 (2011), -7. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden, 'University Botany in Colonial Victoria: Frederick McCoy's Botanical Classes and Collections at the University of Melbourne', Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 (1) (2008), 53-82, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR08002. Details
  • Wilkinson, Ian, 'Frederick McCoy and the University of Melbourne', The Victorian naturalist, 118 (2001), 186-92. Details
  • Wilkinson, Ian R., 'Frederick McCoy: First Science Professor at the University of Melbourne', History of Education Review, 25 (1) (1996), 54-70. Details

Resources

Reviews

  • From System Garden to scientific research: the University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its first two professors (1906-1973)
    Clode, Danielle, Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (2), (2010), 285-6, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR10012. Details

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