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Vol 2, No 2, June 2004 Volume 2, No.2, June 2004 ISSN 1447-4026 IN THIS EDITION Page The Hugeunot Society of Australia: Forthcoming Events 2004 1 The following is a message from Robert Nash, the The Hugeunot Society of Australia 1 President of the Hugeunot Society of Australia:: Dr Ferdinand von Mueller, by Tom Darrah 1-5 The Hugeunot Society of Australia welcomes anyone Grevillia La Trobeana by Helen Coln 5-7 interested in the Hugeunots and their history. We have Jolimont Revisited 9-11 regular talks in Sydney, and there will be at least two La Trobe’s 203rd Birthday Celebration 12 talks in Melbourne too in 2004. We also publish a Robert Hoddle: Pioneer Surveyor 12 newsletter, and offer advice to members on Hugeunot family history research. For more information log onto our website http://members.optushome.com.au/ozhug/ FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2004 or e-mail us on [email protected] Joint RHSV/La Trobe Society AGL Shaw La Trobe Lecture Tuesday 15 June, 5.30 pm at RHSV, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne. Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Speaker: Mr Paul Fox ‘The First Primrose Trobe1 from England: sentiment and reality in gardening, early Port Phillip’ Annual General Meeting During his period as Governor of Victoria following the separation of the Port Phillip District from To be held on Tuesday 24 August at the National New South Wales as the new colony of Victoria, Charles Trust (Victoria), Tasma Terrace, Melbourne at Joseph La Trobe established or encouraged the 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm. Our speaker wil be Mr development of several cultural and scientific institutions. Among them was the institution now Peter Lovell, Director, Allom Lovell & known as the National Herbarium of Victoria. He did Associates, who will give a talk on his family and this by the appointment of a Government Botanist. the West Indies within the context of La Trobe’s Botany was just one of La Trobe's many interests, but interest and time spent there. Refreshments since his arrival in Melbourne, he had little opportunity provided. to further it. This was due to lack of time and perhaps more importantly to the absence of anybody in the Christmas Cocktails 1 This article draws on the letters collected together by the Will be held again at University House on Ferdinand von Mueller Correspondence Project. I am grateful Tuesday 7 December, 6.30 – 8.30 pm. Mark to my project colleagues Sara Maroske and Helen Cohn for your diary now! their suggestions and comments. District who knew anything about the subject.2 La Trobe had occasionally collected plant specimens on his various tours through the District that he sent to the herbarium at Neuchâtel in Switzerland. These specimens were examined by Carl Friedrich Meisner, Professor of Botany at Basel University and when describing plants collected in Australia by Ludwig Preiss he honoured La Trobe by dedicating a new genus of bush pea, Latrobea, to him.3 In July 1852 La Trobe had the opportunity to indulge his botanical interests as well as further the interests of the Colony. He received a letter from the well known English naturalist William Swainson, then in New South Wales, offering his services to undertake a botanical survey of the Colony for one year. La Trobe accepted this offer, but as it turned out the results of Swainson's work were very disappointing. Shortly after receiving this offer, La Trobe would have been surprised and pleased to meet a university-trained German botanist, Ferdinand Mueller, who carried a letter of introduction to La Trobe from the Adelaide merchant Francis Dutton. La Trobe mentioned Mueller in a letter to theTasmanian naturalist Robert Gunn: There is an honest looking German here, Dr Ferdinand Mueller, 1861. Müller, who as far as I can judge seems to be more of a botanist than any man I have hitherto La Trobe was so impressed by Mueller that he met in the Colony; and I shall give him every directed that a sum be placed on the estimates for the encouragt. - He has furnished me with the following year for employment of a Government description of the genus Latrobea of Meisner. Botanist and intended to offer Mueller the position when Both the species brunonis & genistoides were the money was voted by Parliament.5 formerly ranked as Pulteneae it appears. I have no specimen but if I can procure any from any quarter, will take care that you get it. He tells me that an exceedingly pretty dwarf acacia Mueller had arrived in South Australia in flowering most abundantl[y] in its native soil at December 1847. He was a qualified pharmacist, who Jolimont has been distinguished by my name had undertaken university studies in botany at Kiel also.4 University and made extensive botanical investigations in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein where he lived. His parents and one sister had died of tuberculosis, so 2 Maroske, S. & Cohn, H. M., 1992,`Such Ingenious Birds': Mueller decided to take himself and his two surviving Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria. sisters to what he regarded as a healthier climate. He Muelleria 7(4), p. 537. initially chose the island of Madeira,6 but shortly before departure he seems to have been persuaded, apparently 3 Meisner, C. F., 1848, in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.), 1844-48, by the Hamburg pharmacist and botanist Wilhelm Plantae preissianae... (Meissner, Hamburg) 2 (2-3), p. 219. Sonder, to go to South Australia instead. No doubt this Species of this genus are endemic to Western Australia. 4 Charles LaTrobe to Ronald Gunn, 8 October 1853, Gunn 5 correspondence, Mitchell Library, Sydney. The description Maroske & Cohn, op. cit., p. 538; R.W. Home et al. (eds), copied by Mueller is in the La Trobe papers, Australian 1998, Regardfully Yours: Selected correspondence of Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria. The acacia Ferdinand von Mueller (Lang, Bern), volume 1 1840-1859, was Acacia latrobei Meisner in Lehmann (1844-5), vol. 1, p. pp. 138, 766, 767. 10. The specimen on which the description was based was 6 collected by La Trobe in PortPhillip and sent to the Mueller's Reisepass or passport No. 317, dated Altona, 8 Neuchâtel Herbarium. It is currently regarded as a synonym July 1847, (Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Library) was of Acacia acinacea Lindley. filled out for Madeira, but then altered toPort Adelaide. 2 was because it would give Mueller the opportunity to might present itself - could have effected in the time & pursue botany in an area that was still relatively under the circumstances'.10 unknown botanically and so had much to offer the botanical collector. Mueller's first collections of plants were sent to La Trobe by ship from Gippsland and La Trobe directed We know from family correspondence that that a place be made available for the plants in the Mueller never intended to stay in Australia. When his Botanical Gardens where Mueller could work on them.11 sisters were settled, it was his intention to return to Schleswig and purchase a pharmacy there using part of a family legacy. In 1849 his uncle was negotiating with Mueller wrote extensive reports on his the owner of the Husum pharmacy where Mueller had botanical findings during this first excursion which were undertaken his apprenticeship with a view to Ferdinand avidly read by La Trobe. Mueller's first report, dated 27 taking it over. The outbreak of war between the Danish June 1853, bears the annotation by La Trobe "Let me Government and the German speaking inhabitants of have all these reports from the outset".12 In August 1853 the two duchies was one reason that prevented his Mueller proposed another trip through the western half return.7 Another was probably money, given that he of the colony and the Victorian Alps from which he wanted to pursue his love of botany and to do that he returned in April 1854. On a third excursion needed to travel to collect plants. Collecting trips cost undertaken after La Trobe had departed and Charles money and took him away from paid employment as a Hotham had taken over as the new Governor, Mueller pharmacist in Adelaide. By 1851 he was sending part of ascended the Bogong Range discovering two high his collections to Europe, where Sonder arranged their mountains. In his annual report he solicited `His description and sale.8 Excellency's permission to name the grandest of both Mt Hotham, and the second in height Mt Latrobe'. Following the discovery of gold and the Unfortunately Mueller's compass bearings taken to consequent increase in population of neighbouring locate these two mountains as well as other features Victoria, Mueller took the opportunity to move there in named by him were inaccurate owing to the magnetic August 1852. He arrived in Melbourne aboard Hero on interference of basalt in the vicinity and his names were 14 August and set up in business as a pharmacist at 244 not used. Mueller's Mt Latrobe is now known as Mt Lonsdale Street East, Melbourne.9 Whether Mueller Loch. Mt Hotham and Mt Latrobe did come into use, but actually practiced as a pharmacist in Melbourne is not applied to other features.13 clear. Although his business is listed in the 1853 directory, which would indicate that he moved into the shop and perhaps had paid his rate instalment, he could None of Mueller's reports were addressed to La only have operated there for a very short time. By Trobe of course. As a proper public servant, all his January 1853 he was appointed Government Botanist correspondence was addressed to his immediate superior and started on his first collecting tour on 29 January to the Colonial Secretary, William Lonsdale, but all official the eastern half of the Colony, three days after his reports were read by La Trobe as head of government appointment.
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