Person

Bunce, Daniel (1813 - 1872)

Born
18 March 1813
Hertfordshire, England
Died
1872
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Botanist

Summary

Daniel Bunce was Naturalist on Ludwig Leichhardt's second expedition in 1846-1847. He was also Curator of the Geelong Botanic Gardens, Victoria 1858-1872.

Skip to

Details

Born Hertfordshire, England, 1813. Died Geelong, 1872. Trained as a gardener and botanist; emigrated to Hobart Town 1835; opened Denmark Hill nursery, Launceston 1835-39; went to Port Phillip 1839; joined a party of Aboriginals on a journey to Western Port and made an intensive study of their spoken language; established a nursery at St Kilda; joined Leichhardt on his second attempt to cross Australia from east to west 1846; manager of a Bendigo mining company ca 1849-58; wrote on the flora of Bendigo for the Melbourne "Argus"; published "Language of the Aborigines" 1851; director, Geelong Botanical Gardens 1858-72. Wrote a number of books and articles on botany, gardening and travel. He is commemorated by Panicum buncei, F. V. M.

Chronology

1858 - 1872
Career position - Curator, Geelong Botanic Gardens, Victoria

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

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

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

  • Daniel Bunce - Records, 1846 - 1849, B387; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Bunce, D., Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria and other Australian districts: with parallel translations and familiar specimens in dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal Protectors and other engaged in ameliorating their condition (Melbourne: Daniel Harrison, 1851), 60 pp. Details
  • Bunce, Daniel, Hortus Tasmaniensis, or, A guide to the flora of Van Diemen's Land. ([Hobart?]: 1850), 72 pp. Details
  • Bunce, Daniel, Hortus Victoriensis : a catalogue of the most generally known flora of the colony of Victoria, with their Linnaean classification and general remarks (Melbourne: Daniel Harrison, 1851), 23 pp. Details
  • Bunce, Daniel, Manual of practical gardening : adapted to the climate of Van Diemen's Land, containing ... directions ... for every month of the year (Hobart Town: William Gore Elliston, 1853), 240 pp. Details
  • Bunce, Daniel, Travels with Doctor Leichhardt in Australia. Australasiatic reminiscences of twenty-three years' wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias (Melbourne: Steam Press of W. Fairfax & Co., 1859), 216 pp. Details
  • Fox, Paul, Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and Their Landscapes (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 269 pp. Details
  • Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
  • Zuchold, Ernst Amandus, Dr Ludwig Leichhardt: eine biographische Skizze. Nebst einem Berichte über dessen zweite Reise im Innern des Austral-Continents nach dem Tagebuche seines Begleiters, des Botanikers Daniel Bunce (Leipzig: 1856), 118 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Dwyer, Ruth, 'The novel industrial enterprises of Daniel Bunce', Australian garden history, 17 (4) (2006), 3-7. Details
  • Fox, P., 'Daniel Bunce, gardener and botanical explorer', Australian garden history, 1 (2) (1989), 7-11. Details
  • Pescott, E. E., 'The writings of Daniel Bunce, 1838 - 1872', Victorian historical magazine, 23 (1950), 115-25. Details

Resources

See also

  • Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', The Victorian naturalist, 25 (1908), 101-117. Details

McCarthy, G.J. & Moje, C.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2014

EOAS ID: biogs/P000276b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000276b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260