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1 autograph letter, signed, to Joseph Milligan, Inspector of Convict Discipline, Hobart, concerning a plan to collect specimens from Australian coalfields.

Miscellany: Australasia, Indonesia and the Pacific, 18th-20th centuries

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and traveller

Aimé Jacques Alexandre [Goujaud] Bonpland (1773-1858), explorer, botanist and associate of Baron von Humboldt

Sir Thomas M. Brisbane (1773-1860), soldier, astronomer, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Sir Anthony Brownless F.R.C.S. (1817-1897)

William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1979), geologist

Hugh Cuming (1791-1865), English conchologist

Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), botanist and traveller

Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), U.S. surgeon

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), microbiologist, discoverer of penicillin

John Philip Gell (1816-1898), Secretary of the Tasmanian Society, first Warden of Christ College, Hobart, and later husband of Eleanor Franklin, daughter of the Polar explorer

King George IV (1762-1830)

John Gould (1804-1881), ornithologist, traveller in Australia 1838-1840

William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), botanist

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist and traveller

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), botanist and Director of Kew Gardens

William Jack (1795-1822)

Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838), President of the Horticultural Society

Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiére (1755-1834), botanist and traveller

Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848), explorer

John William Lewin (1770-1819), naturalist, based at Parramatta, N.S.W.

Sir John Lubbock F.R.S., later 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913), banker, Liberal M.P., author of popular science books

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist

Charles MacIntosh (1760-1809)

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), anthropologist

Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal

Alec Morgan (fl.1862), Adelaide

Sir Ferdinand J. H. von Mueller (1825-1896), professor of botany and zoology, Melbourne

Pomare, Queen of Tahiti (1822-1877)

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), colonial administrator, naturalist

Claude Urbin Reth (1755-1804), French naturalist, accompanied the expedition of Jean-François de Galaup comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788)

John Ryland (1753-1825), Baptist minister

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist, traveller in the East Indies

Sir William Thomas Denison (1804-1871), soldier and colonial governor

Sir William Thomas Denison (1804-1871), soldier and colonial governor

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