FRAMED BANKSIA FORMOSA SPECIMEN (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DRYANDRA FORMOSA)

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1840

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Overview

Mounted type botanical specimen, Banksia Formosa (R.Br.) (commonly known as showy dryandra), originally collected in October 1840 by James Drummond in Southern Western Australia (probably near Albany).
With wooden frame and covered in glass.

Historical information

James Drummond died in 1863 and his son James Drummond transferred his father's extensive collections to Ferdinand von Mueller, then Government Botanist of Victoria, where it became the basis of Victoria's State Herbarium.
Specimens collected by Drummond are held in twenty-five herbaria in Britain, Europe, the USA and Australia
On the 20th March, 1963, this specimen (which had been subsequently mounted under glass and framed) was donated by the Royal Botanical Gardens and National Herbarium, Melbourne to the Newcastle Gaol Museum.
The presentation was made by Dr. J H Willis on behalf of the Gardens.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.490

Item type

Objects

Themes

Nature
Social History

Material

Width

48 cm

Height or length

62 cm

Depth

6 cm

Inscriptions and markings

Details of where collected is handwritten on mounting card.
A separate "Botanical Museum of Melbourne" label is affixed with identification information, showing earlier classification name of Dryandra Formosa

Contextual Information

The Botanical Museum of Melbourne changed it's name in 1963 to the Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium, located in South Yarra (suburb of Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.

Year

1840

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Rare or representative

Shire of Toodyay

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