von Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (1825 - 1896)

Books

• Chisholm, A. H., Ferdinand von Mueller, Great Australians, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1962. [ Details ]

• Jahn, Ilse and Schmidt, Isolde, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Müller (1825-1896): Ein Australienforscher aue Rostock und die Universität Rostock, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany, 1996. [ Details ]

• Kynaston, Edward, A Man on Edge: a life of of Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, Allen Lane, London; Ringwood, 1981. [ Details ]

• Voight, Johannes H., Die Erforschung Australiens: Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Pettermann and Ferdinand von Mueller 1861-1878, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha, 1996, 159 pp. [ Details ]

• Willis, Margaret, By Their Fruits. A life of Ferdinand von Mueller, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

• Gillbank, Linden, 'Scientific Exploration of the Botanical Heritage of Victoria's Alps: Nineteenth - and Twentieth-Century Contributions of Ferdinand Mueller and Maisie Fawcett', in Babette Scougall (ed.), Cultural Heritage of the Australian Alps: Proceedings of the Symposium held at Jindabyne, New South Wales, 16-18 October, 1991, Australian Alps Liaison Committee, Canberra, 1992, pp. 211-234. [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., 'Emigrants or Scientific Travellers? Ferdinand Mueller and Georg Neumayer between Germany and Australia', in Ellen I. Mitchell (ed.), Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 2000, pp. 11-23. [ Details ]

• Kynaston, Edward, 'Exploration as Escape: Sir Ferdinand von Mueller', in David Walker and Jurgen Tampke (eds), From Berlin to the Burdekin: The German Contribution to the Development of Australian Science, Exploration and the Arts, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1991, pp. 3-21. [ Details ]

• Lucas, A. M., 'Baron von Mueller: Protege Turned Patron', in R. W. Home (ed.), Australian Science in the Making, Cambridge University Press, Sydney, 1988, pp. 133-152. [ Details ]

• Lucas, A. M., 'Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, 1825-1896', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. [ Details ]

• Maroske, Sara, 'Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853-96', in Ellen I. Mitchell (ed.), Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 2000, pp. 24-34. [ Details ]

• Morris, Deirdre, 'Mueller, Baron Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich Von (1825-1896), botanist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 306-308. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050353b.htm) [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'Ferdinand Mueller, Immigrant Scientist, 1825-96', in L. Bodi and S. Jeffries (eds), The German Connection: Sesquicentanary Essays on German-Victorian Crosscurrents, Monash University, Department of German, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 29-41. [ Details ]

• Willis, J. H., 'Baron von Mueller's Travels in the Australian Alps, 1853-61', in Roger Good (ed.), The Scientific Significance of the Australian Alps: The Proceedings of the First Fenner Conference on the Environment, Australian Alps Liaison Committee, Canberra, 1989, pp. 381-382. [ Details ]

Conference Papers

• Gillbank, Linden, 'Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Victorian Forests: Ideas and Concerns of Ferdinand Mueller', in John Dargavel and Sue Feary (eds), Australia's Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australia's Forest History, Creswick, 1992, ANU Society, Creswick, 1992, pp. 3-14. [ Details ]

• Grandison, R., 'The 1851 Botanical Excursion of Ferdinand Mueller to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia', in Short, P.S. (ed.), History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988, Australian Systematic Botany Society, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 109-114. [ Details ]

• Maroske, Sara, 'Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller', in Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (eds), Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 35-38. [ Details ]

Edited Books

• Ferdinand von Müller, 1825-1896: Spuren eines australischen Botanikers in seiner Geburtsstadt Rostock, Series: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Rostock, Heft 22, Universität Rostock, Rostock, 1998, 94 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 2, 1860-1875, vol. 2, Peter Lang, Bern, 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, Peter Lang Verlag, Berne, 1998, 850 pp. [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M., Voigt, J.H.and Wells, M. (ed.), Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 3, 1876-1896, vol. 3, Peter Lang, Bern, 2006, 909 pp. [ Details ]

Journals

• Grey, Ed and Grey, Pat (eds), 'Special issue 'to acknowledge and remember the Baron [von Mueller], and while it deals with the wider aspects of Mueller's involvement with natural history, the central issue is his association with [The Field Naturalists] Club [of Victoria]'.', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, 128-228 pp. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

• Adams, Laurence G., 'The orthography of Mueller's epithets commemorating Wilhelm Bäuerlen', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, vol. 24, 1980, pp. 8-10. [ Details ]

• Albrecht, D., 'Eden Revisited ... Mueller's 1860 Journey to Twofold Bay-Genoa District', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 171-180. [ Details ]

• Archer, B.; Maroske, S., 'Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 188-194. [ Details ]

• Aston, Helen, 'Villarsia - One of Mueller's Puzzles', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 151-152. [ Details ]

• Best, H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, the Man.', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 65, October, 1948, pp. 132-137. [ Details ]

• Burdon, A., 'Taking Stock', Australian Geographic, no. 47, 1997, pp. 46-67. [ Details ]

• Campbell, W.S., 'Recollections of "The Baron".', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 52, September, 1935, pp. 79-82. [ Details ]

• Cavanagh, Tony, 'The Victorian Government Printer and Early Scientific Publishing in Victoria: Ferdinand von Mueller, the Royal Society and R. Brough Smyth', Riverina Library Review, vol. 5, no. 4, 1988, pp. 263-276. [ Details ]

• Churchill, D. M.; Muir, T. M.; Sinkora, D. M., 'The Published Works of Ferdinand J. H. Mueller (1825-1896)', Muelleria, vol. 4, no. 1, 1978, pp. 1-120. [ Details ]

• Churchill, D. M.; Muir, T. M.; Sinkora, D. M., 'The Published Works of Ferdinand J. H. Mueller (1825-1896), Supplement', Muelleria, vol. 5, no. 4, 1984, pp. 229-248. [ Details ]

• Cohn, Helen M., 'Mueller and the North Australian Exploring Expedition', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 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, vol. 67, no. 1, 1996, pp. 103-127. [ Details ]

• Daley, Chas, 'Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. KCMG, MD, FRS Botanist, Explorer, Geographer', Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 10, 1924, pp. 23-32 & 34-75. [ Details ]

• Daley, Chas, 'The History of Flora Australiensis', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 47, November, 1930, pp. 113-115. [ Details ]

• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Mueller and Personal Names in Zoology and Palaeontology', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 195-197. [ Details ]

• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Bishop Goold and Ferdinand von Mueller: a 30 Year Acquaintance', Footprints: Journal of the Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, vol. June, 2003, pp. 3-9. [ Details ]

• Dwyer, Ruth, 'To Honour a Noted Botanist', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 208-209. [ Details ]

• Dwyer, Ruth, 'Baron von Mueller at Adelaide', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 139-140. [ Details ]

• Endersby, Ian, 'Mueller's Oceanic Island Plants', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 181-184. [ Details ]

• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 'A Man on Edge: a Life of Baron Sir Ferdinarnd von Mueller, by Edward Kynaston', Historical Studies, vol. 20, 1982, pp. 154-155. [ Details ]

• Frost, William and Harvey, Sarah, 'Forest Industries or Dairy Pastures? Ferdinand von Mueller and the 1885-1893 Royal Commission on Vegetable Products', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 431-438. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130431.htm) [ Details ]

• Gemmell, N., 'Some Notes on Ferdinand von Mueller and the Early Settlement of Bugle Ranges', South Australian Naturalist, vol. 49, no. 4, 1975, pp. 51-64. [ Details ]

• Gilbert, Lionel, 'From Joseph Banks to Joseph Maiden: Towards a Scientific Botanic Garden', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 283-310. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130283.htm) [ Details ]

• Gillbank, L., 'Mueller's Naming of Places and Plants in Central Australia', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 219-226. [ Details ]

• Gillbank, Linden, 'Alpine Botanical Expeditions of Ferdinand Mueller', Muelleria, vol. 7, no. 4, 1992, pp. 529-553. [ Details ]

• Grandison, R., 'Mueller's Excursions in the Murray Scrub 1848-1851', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 152-162. [ Details ]

• Grandison, Ralph E., 'Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, KCMG (1825-1896)', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch, vol. 85, 1985, pp. 22-24, 42. [ Details ]

• Haas, L.F., 'Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Muller (1825-96)', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, vol. 65, no. 1, 1998, p. 9. [ Details ]

• Hardy, A. D., 'Excerpts From letters to Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller', Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 21, 1945, pp. 1-23. [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., 'The Scientific Savant in Nineteenth Centry Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 283-454. [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., 'Ferdinand Mueller: Migration and the Sense of Self', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 311-324. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130311.htm) [ Details ]

• Home, R.W., 'A Botanist for a Continent: Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-96)', Endeavour, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 72-75. [ 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, vol. 18, June 1995; issued December 1997, 1995, pp. 3-50. [ Details ]

• Houghton, Sheila, 'Baron von Mueller and The Victorian Naturalist', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 140-142. [ Details ]

• Jeffries, Stephen, 'Alexander von Humboldt and Ferdinand von Mueller's Argument for the Scientific Botanic Garden', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 301-310. [ Details ]

• Kantvilas, G., 'A Brief History of Lichenology in Tasmania, Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 117, 1983, pp. 41-52. [ Details ]

• Lucas, A. M., 'Letters, Shipwrecks and Taxonomic Confusion: Establishing a Reputation from Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 10, no. 3, 1995, pp. 207-221. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9951030207.htm) [ Details ]

• Lucas, A. M., 'Assistance at a Distance: George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller and the Production of the Flora australiensis', Archives of Natural History, vol. 30, 2003, pp. 255-281. [ Details ]

• Mace, Bernard, 'Mueller - Champion of Victoria's Giant Trees', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 198-207. [ Details ]

• Maiden, J., 'Brief memories of Baron von Mueller. in Presidential Address', vol. xivi, 1912, pp. 8-11. [ Details ]

• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Australian Botanists - (a) General, (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xlii, 1908, pp. 60-132. [ Details ]

• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 25, 1908, pp. 101-117. [ Details ]

• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909, pp. 9-29. [ Details ]

• Maroske, Sara, 'The Private Life of a Public Figure: Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, 1825-1896', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 335-344. [ Details ]

• Maroske, Sara and Cohn, Helen M., 'Such Ingenious Birds: Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria', Muelleria, vol. 7, no. 4, 1992, pp. 529-553. [ Details ]

• Martin, Susan, 'Mueller and his "Lady" Correspondents', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 185-187. [ Details ]

• May, T and Maroske, S., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, Exhibitioner Extraordinaire', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 143-145. [ Details ]

• McMullen, Gabrielle L., 'Getting to Know Dr Müller: Accounts of Ferndinand von Müller in Victoria's Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Language Newspapers', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 325-334. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130325.htm) [ Details ]

• McPhee, C., 'The Botanist at Como: Mueller and the Armytage Family', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 227-228. [ Details ]

• Moore, James, 'Green Gold: the Riches of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 371-388. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130371.htm) [ Details ]

• Muir, T. B., 'An Index to the New Taxa, New Combinations and New Names Published by Ferdinand J. H. Mueller', Muelleria, vol. 4, no. 2, 1979, pp. 123-168. [ Details ]

• Orchard, Ken, 'Regional Botany in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia: Mueller's Murray River Collecting Network', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 389-406. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130389.htm) [ Details ]

• Paddle, R.N., 'Mueller's Magpies and Marsupial Wolves ...', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 215-218. [ Details ]

• Parker, Alan, 'Mueller and the North Australia Expedition', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 169-170. [ Details ]

• Parkin, Alan, 'The Mueller Memorial Medal', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 209-210. [ Details ]

• Parkin, Alan, 'Mueller, Acclimatiser and Seed Merchant', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 213-214. [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'Exiled from the Garden: Von Mueller's Correspondence with Kew, 1871-81', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 48, 1977, pp. 313-320. [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'A Letter from the Baron: Von Mueller's Royal Medal, 1888', Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 63, 1978, pp. 270-274. [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'A Baron Under Siege: Von Muller and the Press in the 1870's', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 50, 1979, pp. 18-35. [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller, 1825-1896', Geographers: Bibliographical Studies, vol. 5, 1981, pp. 89-93. [ Details ]

• Powell, J. M., 'National Identity and the Gifted Immigration: Baron von Mueller, scientist and public servant, 1825-96', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1982, pp. 56-61. [ Details ]

• Ross, J.H., 'The Legacy of Mueller's Collections', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 146-150. [ Details ]

• Ross, Jim, 'Some Insights into F. J. H. Mueller's Modus Operandi', Australasian Systematic Botany Newsletter, vol. 84, September, 1995, pp. 4-6. [ Details ]

• Salkin, A. I., 'Short History of the Discovery and Naming of Banksias in Eastern Australia: Part 5, Ferdinand Mueller', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 98, no. 6, 1981, pp. 254-256. [ Details ]

• Short, Philip, 'Ferdinand Mueller and Early Botanical Activities in the Vicinity of Hermannsburg', Trust News (Victoria), vol. 6, no. 3, 1989, pp. 8-13. [ Details ]

• Stevens, P.F., 'J.D. Hooker, George Bentham, Asa Gray and Ferdinand Mueller on Species Limits in Theory and Practice: a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Debate and its Repercussions', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 335-344. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130345.htm) [ Details ]

• Taylor, Angela, 'Baron von Mueller in the Field Naturalists Tradition', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 131-138. [ 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, vol. 11, no. 1, 1996, pp. 13-33. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9961110013.htm) [ Details ]

• Voigt, Johannes H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller und Württemberg', Beiträge zur Landeskunde: Regelmässige Beilage zum Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg, vol. 5, October, 1996, pp. 8-13. [ Details ]

• Wallace, Ray, 'The Baron and the Goldfield', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 113, 1996, pp. 211-212. [ Details ]

• Willis, J. H., 'Ferdinand von Mueller: Nestor of Australian Botany', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 10, 1948, pp. 136-140. [ Details ]

• Willis, J.H., 'Botanical Pioneers in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 66, 1949, pp. 83-89; 103-109; 123-107. [ Details ]

Theses

• Gilbert, L. A., 'Botanical Investigation of New South Wales 1811-1880', PhD thesis, University of New England, 1971. [ Details ]

• Newell, Jennifer and Sutherland, Denise, 'Scientists and Colonists', Australasian Science, vol. Summer, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_colonists.htm. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000663. [ Details ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000663. [ Details ]