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People and plants in Australia / edited by D.J. and S.G.M. Carr.
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New York :: Academic Press,
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1981.
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xxi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A companion volume to: Plants and man in Australia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Uniform title:Plants and man in Australia.]
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Monograph
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The botany of the first Australians -- Extra-tropical Western Australia -- A charmed life: the collections of Labillardiere -- Australian phycology: the German influence -- Botany of the Flinders voyage -- Karl Goebel in Australia and New Zealand --
Botany and society in Eastern Australia -- Plants, politics and personalities in Colonial New South Wales -- Botany and society in the Swan River Colony -- James Drummond and the Royal Cork Institution -- 'Rain follows the plough' -- Goyder's line: a line for all seasons? -- The contribution of women to Australian botany -- Collectors and illustrators: women botanists of the nineteenth century -- Augusta and Mrs Malloy -- The remarkable Mrs Clemens -- Ightham Station: on the the trail of Mary S. Clemens -- Jessie Louisa Hussey -- Index to organisms -- General index.
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