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A greater prize than gold : Augustus Oldfield, 19th century botanical collector and ethnographer in Australia / M. Helen and William G. (Bill) Henderson

Record no:

84400

Call no:

581.092 HEN

Author:

Henderson, Margaret Helen ; Henderson, William G.

Publisher:

[Leschenault, W.A.]: Book Reality Experience

Year:

2018

Description:

xxx, 520 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Oldfield, Augustus, 1821-1887;
Biogeography - Australia;
Botanists - Australia - Biography;
Botanists - England - Biography;
Plants - Collectors and collecting;

Western Australia - Discovery and exploration - 19th century;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Social life and customs;

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Isbn:

9780648222231

Notes:

Type:

Book

Abstract:

The definitive work on this most prestigious 19th-century English botanist and zoologist who collected in the south-west and Murchison districts of Western Australia in the 1850s and 1860s, and earlier extensively in Tasmania, his collections being sent

to the Melbourne botanical gardens and to Kew Gardens, London.

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Result	Links	Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
1		Main Library		581.092 HEN	On Shelf	2018