A list of botanical collectors in Australia. Represented by specimens at Melbourne Herbarium. Those preceded by an asterisk collected principally or were collecting still in the 20th century. 30 page, typed list with handwritten corrections and alterations.

Research files on various Australian botanic collectors compiled by J.H. Willis.
The files, enclosed in envelopes, contains material for a biographical register and includes name, biographical details, research notes, references and some completed forms. Includes research on: Laurence George Adams; Robyn Adams; Frederick M. Adamson; George Henry Adcock; David E. Albrecht; Charles R. Alcock; Ernest S. Alcock; John L. Alcock; Margaret Forbes Allan; Marie J. Allender; William Allitt; Barry J. Alpher; George W. Althofer; Peter Althofer; Jill Anderson; John Anderson; Robert H. Anderson. This research was compiled for the publication Australian Plants Collectors and Delineators from the 1780's to the 1980's.

Compiled by J.H. Willis.
Correspondence with Margaret Stone; exhibition programme entitled Margaret Stone's Botanical Watercolours; copy of Gardener's Chronicle, 1959.

Biographical Index of Australian Botanists research material compiled by J.H. Willis.
The material was collected on behalf of Daphne Pearson's application for a research grant for a biographical register of Australian botanical collectors and illustrators register.

Correspondence regarding Daphne Pearson's application for financial assistance with the compilation of the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists; completed application form; notes; copy of a list of the Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators 1780s - 1980s by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis; amendments to the biographical index; forms; standard letters regarding the project. The material was collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

Biographical Index of Australian Botanists Correspondence with Daphne Pearson (also Rica Erickson's notes on Women Collectors in Western Australia) and material collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

Biographical research on individual female botanical collectors; letter to J.H. Willis from J.D. Piercey. The material was collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

Notes; 'biographical snippets' for register of botanical collectors; obituaries; correspondence; published reprints; copy of 'Robert Brown's Collecting in Victoria' in Muelleria, by J.H. Willis. The material was collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

First General Report to Parliament of the Government Botanist on the Vegetation of the Colony, September 1853; Second General Report to Parliament of the Government Botanist on the Vegetation of the Colony, 24 October 1854; notes on the chronological arrangement of Von Mueller's Collecting Sites in Australia, 1847-1895; Baron Von Mueller and other Pioneer Botanists of the north-east by J.H. Willis, 21 November 1980. The material was collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

Material was collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis. 'Salute to the late Ian Douglas Cameron: by J.H. Willis; 'Alexander Hugh Chisholm' by J.H. Willis; completed forms for the biographical index; paper on Amelia Dietrich; 'Vale Norman Arthur Wakefield' by J.H. Willis; lists; 'Testimonial on Behalf of Bruce Fenner' by J.H. Willis. Letters from: David Churchill; Daphne Pearson; Ian Cameron; Andrea Millar; Ralph Grandison; Alexander Chisholm; Charles Barrett; Tarlton Rayment; Pearl Messmer; Edith Coleman; Edward Pescott; Winifred Waddell; Norman Wakefield; J. Andrew Blackburn; W.H. Nicholls. Also copies of W.H. Nicholls's letters to J. Andrew Blackburn.

Reverend H.M.R. Rupp's manuscript notebooks documenting plant records for districts in Western Victoria. Includes 6 notebooks -
Census of native plants found in the district of Buninyong, with an appendix;
Census of Victorian Plants BEEAC and adjoining localities;
Catalogue of Genera and Species of Native Plants obtained in the district of Coleraine, 1892;
Kingston and surrounding localities; Catalogue of Indigenous Genera and Species obtained near Wando Dale, with notes and other observations, 1982;
Catalogue of Plants, Merri Merri Creek (North Coburg and district), 1896;
Descriptive Catalogue of Native Victorian Plants in the Rusden Museum, Trinity College, Melbourne.

These notebooks were compiled by Rupp during the 1890s and were given to J.H. Willis as a 'Keepsake' from Rupp's library by K. Mair, October 1956. They were used and consulted for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.

Material collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.
'Account of the Vegetation of New Holland and van Diemen's Land, by M. Leschenault, translated, 1824;
'Records of Victorian Botanists', by J.H. Maiden, 1908;
'Botanical Pioneers' by J.H. Willis, reprinted from The Victorian Naturalist, 1949
'The Australian Natural History Medallion' by J. Ros Garnet, reprinted from The Victorian Naturalist, September 1950;
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 'Cyril Tenison White 1890-1950', 1952;
'A Note on Archibald Menzies' by E.J. Godley, 1960;
Royal Australian Historical Society Journal and Proceedings, Vol. 47, Part 5, 1961;
'Botanical Science in Victoria 100 Years Ago, by J.H. Willis, Royal Society of Victoria, 1961;
C.T. White Memorial Lecture for 1963-64 'J.R. Elsey, Surgeon, Naturalist, Explorer', by A.H. Chisholm;
Nature in Australia, December 1965;
'Joseph Leathom Hole Wassell and his Contribution to Australian Natural History', by Elizabeth marks, reprinted from Australian Zoologist, 1968;
'The Genesis of Botanical Science in Victoria' a talk by J.H. Willis, 1971;
'Robert Francis McNabb', reprinted from, 1973;
'Early Days Journal, The Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1974;
'Obituary: William Matin 1886-1975', New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1976;
'Dr. John Lhotsky: The Turbulent Australian Writer, Naturalist and Explorer', written by various authors, 1977;
'The Botanical Researches of William, Swainson F.R.S. in Australasia, 1841-1855' by D.J. Galloway, 1978;
Australian Forestry, Volume 42, Number 3, 1979;
'Excursions from Berrima and a trip to Manaro and Molonglo in the 1870s', by Louisa Atkinson, 1980;
'Australian Psychology: The German Influence', by Sophie Ducker, 1981;
'Dr. H.H. Behr's Two Visits to South Australia', by Darrell Kraehenbuehl, 1981;
'James Bolton: Mycological Pioneer', by Roy Watling and Mark Seaward, 1981;
'University of Wroclaw Lichen Herbarium', by M.R.D. Seaward, 1983;;
'Port Phillip Heads: A Psycological Saga', by Sophie Ducker, 1983
'James Fleming: The First Gardener on the River Yarra, Victoria', by Sophie Ducker, 1985.

Material collected for the Biographical Index of Australian Botanists compiled by J.H. Willis, Daphne Pearson and Mervyn Davis.
By J.H. Maiden: A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Part 1, Part 111,
Part V111; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Vol. II; Vol. II, Part 1; Vol. II Part 2; Vol. 11, Part 3; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Vol. 111, Part 6; Vol. 111, Part 7 ; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, by J.H. Maiden, Vol. IV, Part 1; Vol. IV, Part 2; Vol. IV, Part 3; Vol. IV, Part 4; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Vol. V. Part 5; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Vol. VI, Part 1; Vol. VI, Part 2; Vol. VI, Part 3; Vol. VI, Part 4; Vol. VI, Part 5; Vol. VI, Part 6; Vol. VI, Part 7; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Vol. VII, Part 5; Vol. VII, Part 7; Vol. VII, Part 8; A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Vol. VIII, Part 3; Vol. VIII, Part 4; Vol. III, Part 5.

Forest Research CSIRO Internal Report 9, Supplement fo Botanists of the Eucalypts (CSIRO, 1978), Norman Hall 1979;
A Few Thoughts and Paintings, Ted Andrew 1978;
Botanists of Australian Acacias Norman Hall (CSIRO) 1984;
Botanists of the Eucalypts Normal Hall (CSIRO)1978;
The Educational Magazine Vol 9 No 1, February 1952