Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (1958 - )

Summary

The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the successor of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, continues its work as a scientific institution, a place of education about plants, and a major open space for the city of Melbourne. Its constituent parts are: the National Herbarium of Victoria, one of Australia's principal scientific plant collections, where research is conducted on the Victorian and Australian floras; the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne which specialises in Australian plants; and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology. With the passing of the Royal Botanic Gardens Act 1991 the Gardens came under the administration of the Royal Botanic Gardens Board (with effect from 1 July 1992) as a statutory authority. In June 2015 the name was changed to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Until 1991 the Director was concurrently the Victorian Government Botanist.

Details

The Gardens has been administered by these Victorian Government authorities:
1958 - 1983 Department of Crown Lands and Survey
1983 - 1990 Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands
1990 - 1992 Department of Conservation and Environment
1992 - Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Related entries

Timeline

 1846 - 1958 Melbourne Botanic Gardens
       1958 - Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• 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

Books

• Cunningham, Sophie; and Wilmoth, Peter, Wonder: 175 years of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Richmond, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, 2021), 246 pp. Details
• Fennessy, Kathleen M., A People Learning: Colonial Victorians and their Public Museums (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 334 pp. Details
• Morris, Deborah (text) and Elms, Greg (photographs), The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne (Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2001), 160 pp. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] ([Melbourne]: 1984), unpaged pp. Details
• Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982), 212 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Cohn, Helen M., 'The historic landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne' in A garden for all seasons: an artist’s view of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Graham, A. M., ed. (North Ryde, N.S.W.: Craftsman House, 1998), pp. 32-40. Details

Journals

• Lemon, Andrew, ed., 'Melbourne's Pride and Glory: 150 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1), 1996. Details

Journal Articles

• Cohn, Helen M., '150 Years: the National Herbarium of Victoria, 1853-2003', Muelleria, 17 (2003), 3-14. 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
• Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara, 'Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a Select Annotated Bibiliography', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 167-174. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'A Tale of Two Animals: Camel and Alpaca - Zoological Shaping of Mueller's Botanic Gardens', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 83-102. Details
• Maroske, S.; and May, A., 'Public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1870', Australian Garden History, 4 (4) (1993), 8-14. Details
• McMahon, Philippa, 'Improving Australianness: the Native Plant Breeding Project at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1949-1957', Australian Studies, 20 (2007), 55-76. Details
• McMahon, Philippa, 'Gladioli Envy and the Melbourne Botanic Garden's Native Plant Project', Australian Garden History, 21 (1) (2009), 14-17 . Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-508912. Details

Reviews

• Morris, Deborah (text) and Elms, Greg (photographs), The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2001, 160 pp.
  Payne, Pauline, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (2), (2002), 226-227. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02011. Details