Three influential scientists: Carl Linnaeus -- Sir Joseph Banks -- Charles Robert Darwin. Botanists: Christiaan Hendrik Persoon -- James Dickson -- Abbé José Francesco Correia da Serra -- Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière and Claude-Antoine-Gaspard Riche -- Sir James Edward Smith -- Robert Brown --Sir William Jackson Hooker -- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker -- Baron Ferdinand von Mueller -- Leonard Rodway -- Dr Winifred Curtis and Dennis Morris. Collectors: William Dampier -- David Nelson -- Francesco Borone -- First Fleet collectors -- Lieutenant-Governor William Paterson -- Allan Cunningham -- Robert William Lawrence -- Ronald Campbell Gunn - Dr Joseph Milligan -- William Archer -- Antonius Mircea (Tony) Moscal. Botanical artists: Ferdinand Bauer -- William Buelow Gould -- Dr Margaret Stones. Supporters: Baron Christian Ludwig von Hake -- Sir John Franklin -- George Samuel Perrin
Summary
"An honour roll of the people commemorated in Tasmanian plants... Pathfinders profiles over thirty of these men and women who searched for plants in Tasmania (and other parts of Australia), who named them, who supported the botanists and collectors as well as the artists who drew the plants"--Back cover
Analysis
Australian
BIOGRAPHIES
BOTANISTS
NOMENCLATURE
Notes
"The book developed from a series of interpretive panels in the Tasmanian Section of the Tasmanian Arboretum at Eugenana, north west Tasmania"--Foreword
Map on inside front cover: Chart of Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders 1798-9
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-252) and index
