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Historical resources for Western Australian History
Pamela Statham Drew has compiled the following list of Books and Articles relating to the History of Western Australia.
If you know of any books or articles that could be added to the list please contact Pamela at nickdrew@bigpond.com
Botany
Author | Book Title | Published by |
|---|---|---|
1978
Supplement no. 3 to Botanists of the Eucalypts (CSIRO 1978) | Division of Forestry & Forest Products User Ser. no. 10, CSIRO, Australia, 1989
Division of Forestry User Ser. no. 6, CSIRO, Australia, 1992 | |
Aitken, R. & Looker, M. (eds) | The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens | Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2002 |
Archer, B. & Maroske, S. | Sarah Theresa Brooks – plant collector for Ferdinand Mueller | Victorian Naturalist 113: 188-194, 1996 |
Barker, R.M. & Barker, W.R. | Botanical contributions overlooked: the role and recognition of collectors, horticulturists, explorers and others in the early documentation of the Australian flora | pp 37–85 in P.S.Short (ed.), History of Systematic Botany in Australasia, Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc., [South Yarra], 1990 |
Carr, D.J. & Carr, S.G.M. (eds) | People and Plants in Australia | Academic Press Australia, Sydney, 1981 |
Carr, D.J. & Carr, S.G.M. (eds) | Plants and Man in Australia | Academic Press Australia, Sydney, 1981 |
Clark, D. (translator, editor) | Baron Charles von Hügel: New Holland Journal November 1833–October 1834 | Melbourne University Press, Miegunyah Press, Carlton, in association with The State Library of New South Wales, 1994 |
Cowan, R.A. & Ducker, S.C. | A history of systematic phycology in Australia | pp 1–65 in P.M.McCarthy & A.E.Orchard (eds), Algae of Australia: Introduction, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, & CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2004 |
Curry, S., Maslin, B. & Maslin, J. | Allan Cunningham: Australian Collecting Localities | Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2001 |
Davies, S.J.J.F. (ed.) | The Drummond Symposium: A Review of the Work of James Drummond, the first Government Botanist in Western Australia | Curtin University of Technology Dept of Environmental Biology Bulletin no. 27, 2005 |
Ducker, S.C. | History of Australian phycology: early German collectors and botanists | pp 43–51 in A.Wheeler & J.H.Price (eds), History in the Service of Systematics, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History Special Pub. no. 1, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, London, 1981 |
Ducker, S.C. | The Contented Botanist: Letters of W.H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific | Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 1988 |
Ducker, S.C. | History of Australian phycology: the significance of early French exploration | Brunonia 2: 19–42, 1979 |
Duyker, E. | Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834) | The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2003 |
Duyker, E. & Duyker, M. (eds, translators) | Bruny d’Entrecasteaux: Voyage to Australia & the Pacific 1791–1793 | Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001 |
Erickson, D. | A Joy Forever: The Story of Kings Park & Botanic Garden | Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, West Perth, 2008 |
Erickson, D. | A Joy Forever: The Story of Kings Park & Botanic Garden | Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, West Perth, 2008 |
Erickson, R. | The Drummonds of Hawthornden | Lamb Paterson, Osborne Park, 1969 |
Erickson, R. | A Naturalist’s Life | University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, 2005 |
Erickson, R., ed. L.Layman | Rica’s Stories | The Royal WA Historical Society (Inc.), Nedlands, 2001 |
Finney, C.M. | To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Natural History in Australia 1699–1829 | Rigby Publishers, Adelaide, 1984 |
Fornasiero, J., Monteath, P. & West-Sooby, J. | Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders | Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2004 |
Galloway, D. J. & Groves, E. W. | Archibald Menzies MD, FLS (1754–1842), aspects of his life, travels and collections | Archives of Natural History 14: 3–43, 1987 |
Gardner, C.A. | The history of botanical investigation in Western Australia | pp 40–52 in A.Gibb Maitland (ed.), Science in Western Australia: A Handbook and a Review for the Use of Members of the Association, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Eighteenth Meeting, Perth August 1926, Government Printer, Perth, 1926 |
Gardner, W. | Charles Austin Gardner MBE: from boyhood to a life of great achievement | New Norcia Studies 11: 38–48, 2003 |
George, A. | A tribute to Rica Erickson | Western Word 22 (9): 5, 14, 1998 |
George, A. & Jordan, C. | A heritage of botanical art | Voices 3 (1): 92-106, 1993 |
George, A. & RSWA Council | Obituary Brian John Grieve | Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 80: 289–290, 1997 |
George, A.S. | Botany | pp 138–140 in J.Gregory & J.Gothard (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, 2009 |
George, A.S. | Australian Botanist’s Companion | Four Gables Press, Kardinya, 2009 |
George, A.S. | Appendix 2 Plants in Western Australian Exploration volume 1 December 1826–December 1835 Hesperian
Press, Carlisle, 2005 | pp 386–402 in M.Hercock et al. (eds), Western Australian Exploration 1836–1845 vol. 2. Hesperian Press, Victoria Park (2011) |
George, A.S. | James Drummond’s date and place of birth | Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 131–132: 4, 2007 |
George, A.S. | William Dampier in New Holland: Australia’s First Natural Historian | Bloomings Books, Hawthorn, 1999 |
George, A.S. | Appendix 3 Plants in Western Australian Exploration 1836–1845 | pp 403–411 in M.Hercock et al. (eds), Western Australian Exploration 1836–1845 vol. 2. Hesperian Press, Victoria Park (2011) |
George, A.S. | Collections, plant | pp 211–212 in J.Gregory & J.Gothard (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, 2009 |
George, A.S. | A centenary observed – Charles Gardner | Wildflower Society of Western Australia Newsletter
34, 4: 15–18, 1996 |
Gooding, J. | Brush with Gondwana: The Botanical Artists Group of Western Australia | Fremantle Press, Fremantle, 2008 |
Gooding, J. | Wildflowers in Art | Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1991 |
Grieve, B.J. | Botany in Western Australia: a survey of progress 1900– 1971 | Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 58: 33–53, 1975 |
Hall, N. | Botanists of Australian Acacias
Supplement No 1 to Botanists of Australian Acacias (CSIRO 1984) | CSIRO, Melbourne, 1984
Division of Forestry, User Ser. no. 13, CSIRO, Australia, 1993 |
Hall, N. | Botanists of the Eucalypts
Supplement to Botanists of the Eucalypts (CSIRO 1978) Supplement no. 2 to Botanists of the Eucalypts (CSIRO, | CSIRO, Melbourne, 1978
Division of Forest Research Internal Report 9, CSIRO, Australia, 1979 |
Hasluck, A. | Portrait with Background [Georgiana Molloy] | Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1955 |
Hewson, H. | Australia: 300 Years of Botanical Illustration | CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 1999 |
Hilton, R.N. | The Preiss collections of Western Australian fungi [Ludwig Preiss] | Nuytsia 6: 295–304, 1988 |
Hopper, S.D. | South-western Australia, Cinderella of the world’s temperate floristic regions, part 1 | Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 20: 101–126,
2003 |
Hopper, S.D. | South-western Australia, Cinderella of the world’s temperate floristic regions, part 2 | Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 21: 132–180,
2004 |
Labillardière, J.J.H. de | English translation as Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, Performed by Order of the Constituent Assembly, During the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 | John Stockdale, London, 1800; facsimile, Bibliotheca Australiana # 67, N.Israel, Amsterdam, & Da Capo Press, New York, 1971 |
Labillardière, J.J.H. de | Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante etc. | 2 vols, H.J.Jansen, Paris, 1799, 1800 |
Lamb, W.K. (ed.) | George Vancouver: a Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World 1791–1795 | 4 vols, 2nd series vols 163–166, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1984 |
Lines, W.J. | An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy | Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 1994 |
Mabberley, D.J. | Jupiter Botanicus: Robert Brown of the British Museum | J.Cramer, Braunschweig, 1985 |
Maiden, J.H. | Records of the earlier French botanists as regards Australian plants | Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 44: 123–155, plates III–XIII, 1910 |
Maiden, J.H. | Records of Australian botanists: second supplement | J. Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 55: 150–169, 1921 |
Maiden, J.H. | Records of Western Australian botanists | Journal of the Western Australian Natural History Society 6: 5–27, 1909. [see note, J.
Nat. Hist. Sci. Soc. W. Australia 3 (1): 42
(1910)] |
Maiden, J.H. | Records of Australian botanists: first supplement | Report of the 13th Meeting of the Australasia Association for the Advancement of Science held at Sydney, 1911 224–243, plates 20, 21, 1912 |
Maiden, J.H. | Records of Australian botanists who have dealt with the flora of Western Australia | Journal of the Western Australian Natural History Society 6: 28–33, 1909 |
Marchant, L.R. | An Island unto Itself: William Dampier and New Holland | Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, 1988 |
Marchant, N.G. | The Western Australian collecting localities of J.A.L.Preiss | pp 131–135 in P.S.Short (ed.), History of Botany in Australasia, Australian Systematic Botany Society, [South Yarra], 1990 |
May, T.W. | History of the study of Australian Agaricales | pp 265–272 in P.S.Short (ed.), History of Botany in Australasia, Australian Systematic Botany Society, [South Yarra], 1990 |
May, T.W. & Pascoe, I.G. | History of the taxonomic study of Australian fungi | pp 171–206 in A.E.Orchard (ed.), Fungi of Australia vol. 1A Introduction—Classification, Australian Biological Resources Study/CSIRO, Canberra, 1996 |
McCarthy, J. | Monkey Puzzle Man: Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, & Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath, 2007 |
McGillivray, D.J. | Johann August Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883) in Western Australia | Telopea 1: 1–18, 1975 |
Nelson, E.C. | The collectors and type locations of some of Labillardière’s “Terra van Leeuwin” (Western Australia) specimens | Taxon 24: 319-336, 1975 |
Orchard, A.E. | A history of systematic botany in Australia | pp 11-103 in A.E.Orchard & H.S.Thompson (eds), Flora of Australia vol. 1, 2nd edn, ABRS/CSIRO, Melbourne, 1999 |
Parbery, I.H. & Sheather, W.H. | Aspects of Australian mycology: 1800–1900 | pp 253–258 in P.S.Short (ed.), History of Botany in Australasia, Australian Systematic Botany Society, [South Yarra], 1990 |
Patrick, S. | [Georgiana Molloy] | pp 131-141 in M.Calver et al. (eds), Proc. 6th Natl Conf. Austral. Forest. Hist. Soc. Inc., Millpress, Rotterdam, 2005 |
Pearce, R. | French doctor-naturalists in Western Australia | Early Days: Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society 11: 56–65, 1995 |
Pearn, J. | Dr William Blackall | pp 89–90 in J.Pearn, A Doctor in the Garden: Nomen Medici in Botanicis, Australian Flora and the World of Medicine, Amphion Press, Brisbane, 2001 |
Ramsay, H.P. | History of research on Australian mosses | pp 1–19 in P.M.McCarthy (ed.), Flora of Australia 51, Mosses 1, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, & CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2006 |
Serventy, D.L. | Obituary C. A. Gardner, M.B.E. | The Western Australian Naturalist 11: 168–172,
1970 |
Sharr, F.A. | Western Australian Plant Names and their Meaning: a Glossary | University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1978, reprinted with amendments 1988, enlarged edn 1996 |
Short, P.S. (ed.) | History of Systematic Botany in Australasia | Australian Systematic Botany Society, [South Yarra], 1990 |
Smith, G.G. | Pioneer seashore botanists in Western Australia | Journal and Proceedings of the Western Australian Historical Society 4 (5): 86–102,
1953 |
Smith, G.G. | Pioneer botanists of Western Australia | Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society 8 (6): 59–73, 1982 |
Underwood, R. | A Botanical Journey: The Story of the Western Australian Herbarium | Department of Environment and Conservation, Perth, 2011 |
Underwood, R. | The plant key: a missing element in Western Australian botany | pp 96–98 in R.Underwood, A Botanical Journey: The Story of the Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation, Perth, 2011 |
Underwood, R. | A Botanical Journey: The Story of the Western Australian Herbarium | Department of Environment and Conservation, Perth, 2011 |
Vallance, T.G., Moore, D.T. & Groves, E.W. | Nature’s Investigator: the Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805 | Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2001 |
Vellacott, H. (ed.) | Some Recollections of a Happy Life: Marianne North in Australia and New Zealand | Edward Arnold Australia, Caulfield East, 1986 |
Wege, J., George, A.S., Gathe, J., Lemson, K. & Napier, K.D. (eds) | Matthew Flinders and his Scientific Gentlemen: The Expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801–1805 | Western Australian Museum, Perth, 2005 |
Whittell, E.[sic; H.] M. | The visits of John Gilbert, naturalist, to Swan River colony | Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society 4, 1: 23–53, 1949 |
Willis, J.H., Pearson, D., Davis,
M.T. & Green, J.W. | Australian plants: collectors and illustrators 1780s-1980s | Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes 12, 1986 |
Womersley, H.B.S. | The history of studies of southern Australian marine algae | pp 32–37 in H.B.S.Womersley, The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia, part 1, Handbooks Committee, [Adelaide], 1984 |
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