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always in the bush, and engaged in collecting seeds, botanical and entomological specimens. Encouraged by myself, he undertook several extensive journeys over then untrodden ground, eastward as far as the Great Bight, and thus found many new plants and enabled us to extend the known limits of the range of many rare species, as recorded in the
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Only two years ago I made long journeys with him over rough country for several days on horseback to collect plants and seeds. More than 30 years ago he conducted Drummond through the Stirling Ranges in the journey that proved so memorable in the discovery of many splendid plants. He was nearly
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History of systematic botany in Australasia : proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988
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Maiden, J. H. (1909) Records of Western Australian Botanists. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society. 2(6):5-33
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A. E. Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS.
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Short, P.S. (1990). "Politics and the purchase of private herbaria by the national Herbarium of Victoria".
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specimens he obtained were used to make formal descriptions of the region's plant species.
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Maxwell was born in England in 1804 and moved to Western Australia in 1840 to settle at
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History of Orchid Collecting in South Western Australia, 1791 - 1971
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in 1846. The collections he made, in the company of Drummond and
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British emigrants to the Colony of Western Australia
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Index

George Maxwell (disambiguation)
botanical
Caricature by David Low
King George Sound
James Drummond
Ferdinand von Mueller
Flora Australiensis
the Gardeners' Chronicle
Stirling Ranges
Cape Riche
Mount Barren
William Webb
Jeremy Bentham
Patersonia maxwellii
Lasiopetalum maxwellii
Phymatocarpus maxwellii
Pimelea brevifolia subsp. brevifolia
Poa serpentum
"George Maxwell 1805-1879. Botanical Collector and Naturalist"
"Maxwell, George (1804 - 1880)"
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Erickson, Rica
"Drummond, James (1787 - 1863)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
ISSN
1833-7538
OCLC

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