Australian Plant Specimens

The Ferdinand Von Mueller collection of Australian plant specimens is a three volume set of dried and mounted native plant specimens, titled….

Educational Collections of Australian Plants

under the auspices of the Victorian Government

Issued by Baron Ferd. Von Mueller

CMG MD PhD FRS

They had been collated and presented to selected Institutions in Victoria, during the period when Von Mueller was the director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and the herbarium from 1873 (vol.1), 1875 (vol.2), and 1876 (vol.3)

A full database of the specimens is here.. .    

 http://bmilibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/vmhtml.htm

The collection is part of the Ballarat Mechanics’ Institutes listed heritage Collection, and is available for limited inspection by request to the librarian.

Go to here to view some images from the collection.

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These books by Von Mueller are in the BMI heritage collection.