Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors: a biographical register

Maroske, Sara; Vaughan, Alison

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“…While Mueller did not hire women as botanical collectors or artists, he otherwise repaid and acknowledged their contributions to his taxonomic work in the same way as his male collectors. The compilation of Maroske and Vaughan's (2014) biographical register of Mueller's female collectors made it possible to access this group of 19th-century girls' and women's botanical activities, which hitherto were largely unknown. In addition, small numbers of surviving letters and other fragmentary manuscript and documentary evidence bring some personal details about their motivations and satisfactions into focus.…”

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“…It was some compensation for losing the authorship of the Flora (Maroske 2005:95), and also ensured the species would be described even if the specimens were lost on the still risky voyage to England (Lucas 2003). New species have also continued to be named on the basis of specimens collected by Mueller's female collectors long after his, and their, deaths (Maroske & Vaughan 2014).…”

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“…My thanks go, for many and varied contributions to this article, to Tom May, Alison Vaughan, Sue Janson, Helen Cohn, Jill Thurlow, and to my colleagues on the Mueller Project. I also wish to draw attention to the numerous individuals mentioned in references in Maroske and Vaughan (2014), whose research efforts have helped to fill in the details of Mueller's female collectors.…”

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“…This study has been able to utilise a biographical register of 225 of Mueller's female botanical collectors compiled by Maroske and Vaughan (2014) Moreover, by comparing Mueller's female collectors with his male collectors, and with other collecting and botanical networks, this study has also been able to introduce quantitative analysis into a discussion in which it has mostly been lacking. All biographical information given in this article about female collectors is from Maroske and Vaughan (2014) unless otherwise specified.…”

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‘A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female collectors and the history of Australian botany

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2014

Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany

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In 1884, Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria, told his collector Mary Bate that she was 'one of the very few' women in Australia interested in botany in contrast to the situation in Europe and North America. This proposition is assessed using Maroske and Vaughan's biographical register (2014), which identifies 225 of Mueller's female collectors, and outlines their contribution to Australian botany. An analysis of this register reveals that Mueller achieved a scale and level of engagement between Australian women and botany far in excess of the benchmark he described to Mary Bate. This is an achievement that has not been acknowledged in the history of Australian botany.

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“…1 ) (also see case studies below). Moreover, data entry protocols can serve to further obscure their contributions to natural history by making the women findable only via their husband's name ( Maroske and Vaughan 2014 ).…”

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The disambiguation of people names in biological collections

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Scientific collections have been built by people. For hundreds of years, people have collected, studied, identified, preserved, documented and curated collection specimens. Understanding who those people are is of interest to historians, but much more can be made of these data by other stakeholders once they have been linked to the people’s identities and their biographies. Knowing who people are helps us attribute work correctly, validate data and understand the scientific contribution of people and institutions. We can evaluate the work they have done, the interests they have, the places they have worked and what they have created from the specimens they have collected. The problem is that all we know about most of the people associated with collections are their names written on specimens. Disambiguating these people is the challenge that this paper addresses. Disambiguation of people often proves difficult in isolation and can result in staff or researchers independently trying to determine the identity of specific individuals over and over again. By sharing biographical data and building an open, collectively maintained dataset with shared knowledge, expertise and resources, it is possible to collectively deduce the identities of individuals, aggregate biographical information for each person, reduce duplication of effort and share the information locally and globally. The authors of this paper aspire to disambiguate all person names efficiently and fully in all their variations across the entirety of the biological sciences, starting with collections. Towards that vision, this paper has three key aims: to improve the linking, validation, enhancement and valorisation of person-related information within and between collections, databases and publications; to suggest good practice for identifying people involved in biological collections; and to promote coordination amongst all stakeholders, including individuals, natural history collections, institutions, learned societies, government agencies and data aggregators.

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Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors: a biographical register

Abstract: 2. As of October 2013. This figure includes approximately 5,500 specimens that have been returned to MEL, but are awaiting databasing.

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‘A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female collectors and the history of Australian botany

‘A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female collectors and the history of Australian botany

The disambiguation of people names in biological collections

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