Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project (1987 - )

Summary

The Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project began as an initiative of Rod Home at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne. It is a collaboration with the National Herbarium of Victoria, with researchers in Melbourne, the United Kingdom and Germany; the secretariat is based at the Herbarium. Ferdinand von Mueller was one of Australia's foremost nineteenth-century botanists who conducted a correspondence with people all over the world. His letters reflect his wide interests not just in botany but also in exploration, acclimatisation, and economic botany, and illuminate the workings of the Victorian civil service. The Project aims to find, edit and publish Mueller's prolific correspondence, with the cooperation of the repositories holding these letters: the ultimate aim is to produce a searchable database. Editors and others involved in the Project have published a range of papers on Mueller, his work, and science in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth-century.

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Published resources

Conference Papers

• 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

• 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

Journal Articles

• Maroske, Sara, Robin, Libby and McCarthy, Gavan, 'Building the history of Australian science: five projects of Professor R. W. Home (1980 - present)', Historical Records of Australian Science, 28 (1) (2017), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16018. Details
• McCarthy, Gavan, 'The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: from nineteenth century paper to twenty first century data', Circumscribere: international journal for the history of science 21:63-70, 21 (2018), 63-70. https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-7651.2018v21. Details

Resources

• 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

Resource Sections

• 'Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project', National Herbarium of Victoria, South Yarra, 2021. https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/library/correspondence-of-ferdinand-von-mueller-project/. Details

See also

• Archer, B.; Maroske, S., 'Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 188-194. 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
• 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
• 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.; 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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., Science as a German Export to Nineteenth-Century Australia (London: Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1995), 21 pp. 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., '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
• 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
• 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
• Home, R. W.; Maroske, Sara; Lucas, A. M.; and Lucas, P. J., 'Why Explore Antarctica?: Australian Discussions in the 1880s', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 38 (1992), 386-413. 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., '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., 'Early Copies of the First Edition of Origin of Species in Australia', Archives of Natural History, 37 (346-8) (2010). 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., 'Evolving contexts of collecting: the Australian experience' in Naturalists in the field: collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, MacGregor, Arthur, ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 806-62. Details
• Lucas, A. M.; and Home, R. W., 'Misleading labels: Richard Helms and the Elder Exploring Expedition', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 174 (2018), 14-8. 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.; Lucas, Paula, Darragh, T. A.; and Maroske, S., 'Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations: the British Museum and Melbourne's meteorites', British Journal for the History of Science, 27 (1994), 65-87. 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
• Lucas, Arthur M., 'Disposing of John Lindley's Library and Herbarium: the Offer to Australia', Archives of Natural History, 35 (1) (2008), 15-70. 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., 'The queen of aquatics: Victoria amazonica', Australian garden history, 3 (5) (1992), 3-6. 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.; Sinkora, D.; and Cohn, Helen M., 'Ferdinand von Mueller's library', Botanic magazine, 4 (1992), 17-23. Details
• Maroske, Sara, 'The Whole Great Continent as a Present: Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 13-34. 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, '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
• 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, 'Doris Martha Sinkora (1927 - 2017) - herbarium curator, phycologist, historian of botany', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 174 (2018), 33-6. 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
• May, T. W.; Maroske, S.; and Sinkora, D. M., ''The mycologist, the Baron, his fungi hunters and the mystery artist', Botanic magazine, 6 (1995), 36-9. Details
• May, T.; and Maroske, S., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, Exhibitioner Extraordinaire', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 143-145. 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
• 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