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Baron Ferdinand von Mueller was Victoria's Government Botanist for 43 years, the first Director of the Melbourne Botanic Garden from 1857–1873, and one of Australia's best-known nineteenth-century scientists. Mueller corresponded prodigiously with individuals all over the world and is believed to have written well over 100,000 letters to his network of correspondents.

In 1987, the von Mueller Correspondence Project (VMCP) was initiated, aiming to produce a comprehensive catalogue of all accessible, surviving von Mueller correspondence in the form of digitally transcribed, indexed and cross-linked documents. Over 11,500 of the 15,000 documents located so far are available online in fully searchable form:

Studies of Mueller's correspondence has shed light on:

  • The scientific and corporate history of the National Herbarium of Victoria and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (previously Melbourne Botanic Garden).
  • Aspects of the scientific and social life of the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century.
  • The development of our understanding of the Australian flora and the study of the natural environment.
  • Our early learned institutions and the place of science in colonial society.
  • The nature of Australian colonial administration.
  • The exploration of much of Australia.
  • The relationship of Australian scientists to the national and international scientific communities.

History

Since the project's inception in 1987, Professor Rod Home has led an international team in the work of locating, translating, transcribing and editing Mueller's letters and providing explanatory footnotes. This has been a challenging project because Mueller's letter-copy books and much of his inward correspondence have not survived. During the course of the project, contact has been made with institutions across Australia and the world seeking copies of letters and other relevant documents.

The secretariat for the project has been based at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria from the beginning, and the Gardens are widely recognised as the centre for research on Mueller and aspects of the history of science in nineteenth-century Australia. The Melbourne-based team members, working with herbarium curation staff, have assisted in solving questions on collecting details and deciphering illegible handwriting. In consequence, the standard of information in our collections database has been improved.

Regardfully yours

Over 750 letters have been published in the three volume work Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller:

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. and Voigt, J.H. (eds) (1998). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 1: 1840–1859. Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. and Voigt, J.H. (eds) (2002). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 2: 1860–1875. Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M., Voigt, J.H. and Wells, M. (eds) (2006). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 3: 1876–1896. Peter Lang, Bern.

Regardfully yours can be purchased at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's Gift Shop.

Project team

  • Rod Home (The University of Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
  • Sara Maroske (The University of Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
  • Helen Cohn (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
  • Arthur Lucas (King's College London)
  • Thomas Darragh (Museum Victoria and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
  • Johannes Voigt (Universität Stuttgart)

Publications by the Mueller Correspondence Project Team

Darragh, T.A. (2023). Engravers and lithographers in colonial Victoria, Melbourne.

Maroske, S. (2022). ‘Baron Ferdinand von Mueller’s plant collectors: at home with the Australian flora’, in A. Shteir (ed.) Flora’s fieldworkers: women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada, McGill Queen’s University Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 158–185.

Lucas, A.M. (2022). A new edition of the ‘Published works of Ferdinand J. H. Mueller’: bibliographical issues and questions of effective publication of ostensible preprints, Muelleria, 41, 34–43.

Maroske, S. (2021). Baron Ferdinand von Mueller’s vision for the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Botanic news, winter, pp. 21–22.

Rae, I.D. & Maroske, S. (2021). Practising chemistry in the British Empire: George Christian Hoffmann (1837–1917) and the geological survey of Canada, Scientia Canadensis, 43(1), 1–138. https://doi.org/10.7202/1078927ar

Rae, I.D. & Maroske, S. (2020). Ferdinand von Mueller’s phytochemical laboratory, Historical records of Australian science, 31(1), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19010

Dowe, J.L. & Maroske, S. (2020). John Dallachy (1804–71): from gardener to botanical collector, Historical records of Australian science, 31, 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19012

Dowe, J.L. & Maroske, S. (2020). John Dallachy (1804–71): collecting botanical specimens at Rockingham Bay, Historical records of Australian science, 31(1), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19013

Dowe, J.L., May, T.W., Maroske, S. & Smith, L.T. (2020). The Wehl family of South Australia and their botanical connections with ‘Dear Uncle’ Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, Swainsona, 34(1), 1–79.

Darragh, T.A. (2018). ‘Ludwig Leichhardt: four previously unknown letters to John Nicholson and the involvement of Ferdinand von Mueller in publishing Leichhardt’ letters’, Historical records of Australian science, 29(2), 153–161. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR18006

Maroske, S. (2018). Doris Martha Sinkora (1927–2017)—herbarium curator, phycologist, historian of botany, Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 174, 33–36. https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/18-march-174.pdf.

Maroske, S. (2018). Doris Sinkora: war survivor found new life in plants, Age, Melbourne, 12 January. https://www.theage.com.au/national/war-survivor-found-new-life-in-plants-20180112-h0h7cj.html

Lucas, A.M. & Home, R.W. (2018). Misleading labels: the case of Richard Helms and the Elder Exploring Expedition, Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 174, 14–18. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61192259

Lucas, A.M. (2018). Evolving contexts of collecting: the Australian experience, in A. Macgregor (ed.) Naturalists in the field, Brill, pp. 806–862.

Maroske, S. & May, T.W. (2018). Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology, Studies in mycology, 89, 63–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.001

Maroske, S., May, T.W., Taylor, A., Vaughan, A. & Lucas, A.M. (2018). On the threshold of mycology: Flora Martin née Campbell (1845–1923), Muelleria, 36, 51–73. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278721#page/1/mode/1up

Maroske, S., Janson, S. & May, T.W. (2018). Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent’s set of Plantae Cryptogamicae Arduenna and the importance of mentors and modesty in Marie-Anne Libert’s cryptogamic career, Lejeunia, 198, 1–40. https://popups.uliege.be/0457-4184/index.php?id=1331

Darragh, T.A. (2017). Hermann Beckler: contributions on Australia made in Germany, Historical records of Australian science, 28, 140–145. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR17013

Maroske, S. & Darragh, T.A. (2016). F. Mueller, ‘The Murray-scrub, sketched botanically’, 1850: a Humboldtian description of mallee vegetation. Historical records of Australian science, 27, 41–46. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16001

Wood, B. & Darragh, T.A. (2016). In his own words: Dr Hermann Beckler’s writings about his journeys between the Darling River and Bulloo, 1860–1, Historical records of Australian science, 27, 28–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/HR16012

Home, R.W. (2015). A distant authority: Ferdinand von Mueller, the communication of ideas, and the colonial search for international standing in science, Louis Green Lecture, Ancora Press, Monash University, Melbourne.

Lucas, A.M (2017). A nineteenth century exploration of phytochemistry in botanical systematics: Joseph Henry Maiden and Eucalyptus kinos, Historical Records of Australian Science, 28, 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16020

Home, R.W. (2017). A tale of two honours: unpacking some of Ferdinand von Mueller’s awards’, Heraldry in Australia, 76, 3–17. Formerly Heraldry news.

Maroske, S., Robin, L. & McCarthy, G. (2017). Building the history of Australian science: five projects of Professor R. W. Home (1980–present), Historical records of Australian science, 28(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16018

Dowe, J.L. & Maroske, S. (2016). ‘These princely plants’: Ferdinand Mueller and the naming of Australasian palms, Historical records of Australian science, 27(1), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15014

Darragh, T.A. & Lucas, A.M. (2015). Two states of fascicle 1 of Mueller’s Fragmenta phytographiae australiae, Archives of natural history, 42, 301–307. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0313

Home, R.W. (2015). Ferdinand Mueller and the Royal Society of Victoria, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127, 105–109.

Maroske, S. & Dowe, J. (2015). German farm gardens in colonial South Australia, Australian garden history, 26(4), 13–16.

Lucas, A.M. (2014). The difficult provenance of Ferdinand von Mueller’s zoological specimens, Archives of natural history, 41, 294–308. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/anh.2014.0249

Maroske, S. (2014). ‘A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors and the history of Australian botany’, Muelleria, 31, 72–91. https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/journal/muelleria-32/

Maroske, S. & Vaughan, A. (2014). Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors: a biographical register, Muelleria, 32, 92–172.

Home, R.W. (2014). Ferdinand Mueller’s Alpine Itinerary, Historical records of Australian science, 25, 1–17.

Lucas, A.M. & Lucas, P.J. (2014). Natural history ‘collectors’: exploring the ambiguities, Archives of natural history, 41, 63–74. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/anh.2014.0210

Lucas, A.M. (2013). James Rennie in Australia, 1840–1867, Archives of natural history, 40: 320–323. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2013.0178

Lucas, A.M. (2013). Zoological eponyms honouring the botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller, Archives of natural history, 40, 263–269. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/anh.2013.0173

Lucas, A.M. (2013). Specimens and the currency of honour: the museum trade of Ferdinand von Mueller, Historical records of Australian science, 24, 15–39.

Gascoigne, J. & Maroske, S. (2013). ‘Science and technology’, in A. Bashford & S. McIntyre (eds) The Cambridge history of Australia, vol. 1: Indigenous and colonial Australia, CUP, pp. 438–461.

Darragh, T.A. (2012). ‘“The desert shall rejoice and bloom”: botanical prints in colonial Australia’, in Art Gallery of Ballarat (ed.), Capturing flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art, Ballarat, pp. 137–175 (notes pp 276–279).

Maroske, S. (2012). Australian and Indian plants: making connexions in nineteenth century botany, Historical records of Australian science, 23(2), 107–119. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12013

Home, R.W. (2012). La Trobe’s ‘Honest looking German’: Ferdinand Mueller and the botanical exploration of gold-rush Victoria, La Trobeana, 11(3), 9–16.

Maroske, S. (2011). ‘Eugene von Guérard and rainforests’ in R. Pullin (ed.) Eugene von Guérard: nature revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp. 156–157.

Lucas, A.M. (2010). Early copies of the first edition of Origin of species in Australia, Archives of natural history, 37, 346–348. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/anh.2010.0015

Lucas, A.M. (2010). Ferdinand von Mueller’s interactions with Charles Darwin and his response to Darwinism, Archives of natural history, 37, 102–130. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/E0260954109001685

Home, R.W. (2008). Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von, in New dictionary of scientific biography, 5, pp. 204–209, Thomson Gale, Detroit.

Lucas, A.M. (2008). Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia, Archives of natural history, 35(1), 15–70. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/E0260954108000053

Lucas, A.M. ( 2007). Mixing private and public: or, did the State pay twice for specimens in Herbarium Hookerianum?, Archives of natural history, 34(2), 357–359. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2007.34.2.357

Maroske, S. (2007). Educational exsiccatae: Ferdinand von Mueller's botanical lessons in colonial Victoria, Re-Collections, 2, 37–47.

Home, R.W., Lucas, A. M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D. M., Voigt, J. H. & Wells, M. (eds) (2006). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, 3: 1876–1896, Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W. (2006). Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist of honour, Australian heritage, winter, 66–71.

Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S. & Brown-May, A. (2006). Bringing science to the public: Ferdinand von Mueller and botanical education in Victorian Victoria, Annals of science, 63, 25–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790500365389

Cohn, H.M. (2005). The close union between the Herbarium and the Naturalists, Victorian naturalist, 122, 282–289.

Home, R.W. (2005).. ‘Science’, in Brown-May, A. & Swain, S. (eds) The encyclopedia of Melbourne, CUP, Cambridge.

Maroske, S. (2006) Ferdinand Mueller and the shape of nature: nineteenth‑century systems of plant classification, Historical records of Australian science, 17, 147–168.

Maroske, S. (2005). ‘National Herbarium of Victoria’, in Brown-May, A. & Swain, S. (eds) The encyclopedia of Melbourne, CUP, Cambridge.

Maroske, S. (2005). ‘Royal Botanic Gardens’, in Brown-May, A. & Swain, S. (eds) The encyclopedia of Melbourne, CUP, Cambridge.

Maroske, S. (2005). ‘Science by correspondence: Ferdinand Mueller and botany in nineteenth century Australia’, unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne.

Cohn, H.M. (2005). Watch Dog over the Herbarium: Alfred Ewart, Victorian Government Botanist 1906–1921, Historical Records of Australian Science, 16, 139–167. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05009

Lucas, A.M. (2004). ‘Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller (1825–1896)’, in H. C. G. Mathew and B. Harrison (eds) Oxford dictionary of national biography, 39, pp. 642–644, OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/52554

Darragh, T.A. (2004). Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Trobe, La Trobean, 2(2), 1–5.

Maroske, S. (2004). Sophie Ducker’s contribution to the history of botany, Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 120, 20–21. https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/04-sept-120.pdf

Maroske, S. & May, T.W. (2004). ‘’The publications of Sophie C. Ducker, Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 120, 22–25. https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/04-sept-120.pdf

Darragh, T.A. (2003). Bishop Goold and Ferdinand von Mueller: a 30 year acquaintance, Footprints: journal of the Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, 20, 3–9.

Wilhelmi, C. (2003) ‘My journeys in South Australia: lecture by Carl Wilhelmi 14 September 1857’, trans. & intro. T.A. Darragh, Journal of Friends of Lutheran Archives, 13, 5–24.

Cohn, H.M., Thurlow, J.R. & Wellkamp, A. (2003). Nature’s art revealed: 150 years of botanical art at the National Herbarium of Victoria 1853–2003, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Melbourne. [exhibition catalogue]

Cohn, H.M. (2003). 150 years: the National Herbarium of Victoria, 1853–2003, Muelleria, 17, 3–14.

Lucas, A.M. (2003). Assistance at a distance: George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller and the production of Flora australiensis, Archives of natural history, 30, 255–281. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/anh.2003.30.2.255

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. & Voigt, J.H. (eds) (2002). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, 2: 1860–1875, Peter Lang, Bern.

Maroske, S. (2002). ‘Kempe, (Friedrich Adolf) Herman(n) (1844–1928)’, in R. Aitken & M. Looker (eds) The Oxford companion to Australian gardens, OUP, South Melbourne.

Maroske, S. (2002). ‘Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825–1896)’, in R. Aitken & M. Looker (eds) The Oxford companion to Australian gardens, OUP, South Melbourne.

Maroske, S. (2002). ‘Krichauff, Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf (1824–1904)’, in R. Aitken & M. Looker (eds) The Oxford companion to Australian gardens, OUP, South Melbourne.

Voigt, J.H. (2001). ‘“On Virgin Soil”: Freiherr Ferdinand von Mueller in Australia: a European scientist's search for identity’, in J. Docker & G. Fischer (eds) Adventures of identity: European multicultural experiences and perspectives, Stauffenburg Verlag, Tubingen.

Darragh, T.A. (2001). Ferdinand Hochstetter’s notes of a visit to Australia and a tour of the Victorian goldfields in 1859, Historical records of Australian science, 13(4), 383–437.

Maroske, S. (2001). The fate of the Cranbourne meteorites, Victorian Naturalist, 118, 305–308.

Beckler, H. (2000). (J.H. Voigt ed.) Entdeckungen in Australien: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen eines Deutschen 1855–1862, Stuttgart.

Home, R.W. (2000). ‘Emigrants or scientific travellers?: Ferdinand Mueller and Georg Neumayer between Germany and Australia’, in E. I. Mitchell (ed.) Baron von Mueller’s German Melbourne, Plenty Valley papers, 3, pp. 11–19.

Maroske, S. (2000). ‘Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853–96’, in E. I. Mitchell (ed.) Baron von Mueller’s German Melbourne, Plenty Valley papers, 3, pp. 24–34.

Cohn, H.M. (1999). Drawn from nature: art and illustration in the natural sciences, Botanic magazine, 8, 61–62.

Gillbank, L. & Maroske, S. (1998). Fourteen plants and a fungus: Ferdinand Mueller's taxonomic imprint on the flora of the Buffalo Range, Victorian Naturalist, 115, 188–191.

Lucas, A.M. (1998). Review of ‘The scientific savant in 19th-century Australia’, Isis, 89 (3), 555–556. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/384119

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. & Voigt, J.H. (eds) (1998). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, 1: 1840–1859, Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W. (1998). A botanist for a continent: Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–96), Endeavour 22, 72–75.

Home, R.W. (1998). Humboldtian imagery and the ‘Humboldt of Australia’, Pacific science, 52, 294–300.

Home, R.W. (1997). Ferdinand Mueller: migration and the sense of self, Historical records of Australian science, 11, 311–323.

Home, R.W. & Maroske, S. (1997). Ferdinand von Mueller and the French consuls, Explorations, 18, 3–50.

Maroske, S. (1997). The private life of a public figure: Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, 1825–1896, Historical records of Australian science, 11, 335–343.

Maroske, S. (1997). Memories of Mueller, Botanical Magazine, 7, 8–13.

Voigt, J.H. (1996). Die Erforschung Australiens: der Briefwechsel zwischen August Petermann und Ferdinand von Mueller 1861–1878, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha.

Archer, B. & Maroske, S. (1996). Sarah Theresa Brooks: plant collector for Ferdinand Mueller, Victorian Naturalist, 113, 188–194. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123707#page/188

Cohn, H.M. (1996). Botanical researches in intertropical Australia: Ferdinand Mueller and the North Australian Exploring Expedition, Victorian Naturalist, 113, 163–168.

Cohn, H.M. & Maroske, S. (1996). Relief from duties of minor importance: the removal of Baron von Mueller from the directorship of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Victorian Historical Magazine, 67, 103–127.

Cohn, H.M. & Maroske, S. (1996). Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a select annotated bibliography, Victorian Historical Magazine, 67, 167–174.

Darragh, T.A. (1996). Mueller and personal names in zoology and palaeontology. Victorian Naturalist, 113, 195–197.

Heathcote, J. & Maroske, S. (1996). Drifting sands and Marram Grass on the south-west coast of Victoria in the last century, Victorian Naturalist, 113, 10–15.

May, T.W. & Maroske, S. (1996). Ferdinand von Mueller, exhibitioner extraordinaire, Victorian Naturalist, 113, 143–145.

Voigt, J.H. (1996). Ferdinand von Mueller und Wurttemberg, Beitrage zur Landeskunde, 5, 8–13.

Voigt, J.H. & Sinkora, D. M. (1996). Ferdinand (von) Mueller in Schleswig-Holstein, or: the making of a scientist and of a migrant, Historical records of Australian science, 11, 13–33.

Gillbank, L. & Maroske, S. (1996). ‘Behind the botany of the Horn Expedition: Ferdinand Mueller’s documentation of the larapintine flora’, in S. R. Morton & D. J. Mulvaney (eds) Exploring central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW, pp. 209–224.

Lucas, A.M. (1995). Letters, shipwrecks and taxonomic confusion: establishing a reputation from Australia, Historical records of Australian science, 10, 207–221. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9951030207

Maroske, S. (1995). Ferdinand Mueller anniversary, Muelleria, 8, 395–398.

Maroske, S. (1995). Mueller's educational collection of plants, Botanic Magazine, 6, 35.

May, T.W., Maroske, S. & Sinkora, D.M. (1995). The mycologist, the Baron, the fungi hunters and the mystery artist, Botanic Magazine, 6, 36–39.

Maroske, S. (1995). ‘Regardfully yours Ferd. Von Mueller’, in T. Sherratt, L. Jooste & R. Clayton (eds) Recovering science: strategies and models for the past, present and future, proceedings of a conference held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, pp. 35–38.

Cohn, H.M. (1995). ‘Australian plants, the garden and botany in the nineteenth century periodical’, Naturae, 5, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Clayton.

Maroske, S. (1995). Ferdinand Mueller anniversary, Muelleria, 8(3), 395–398. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209924#page/1/mode/1up

Brown-May, A & Maroske, S. (1994). Breaking into the quietude: re-reading the personal life of von Mueller, Public History Review, 3, 36–63.

Lucas, A.M., Lucas, P.J., Darragh, T.A., & Maroske, S. (1994). Colonial pride and Metropolitan expectations: the British Museum and Melbourne's meteorites, British Journal for the history of science, 27, 65–87. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4027581

Maroske, S. & Gilfedder, F. (1994). Breaking the silence: the aviary in the Melbourne Botanic Garden and the acclimatisation of song birds, 1857–61, Australian garden history, September/October, 7–11, 15. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/276234#page/1/mode/1up

Home, R.W. (1994). Science as a German export to nineteenth-century Australia, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, working papers in Australian studies, 104.

Willis, J.H. & Cohn, H.M. (1993). ‘Botanical exploration of Victoria’ in D. B. Foreman and N. G. Walsh (eds) Flora of Victoria, 1, 61–78.

Maroske, S. & Brown-May, A. (1993). Horticultural embellishments: public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Garden, 1870, Australian garden history, 4(4), 8–14.

Maroske, S. (1993). ‘“The whole great continent as a present”: nineteenth-century Australian women workers in science’, in F. Kelley (ed.) On the edge of discovery: Australian women in science, Text Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 13–34.

Maroske, S. (1993). Ferdinand von Mueller objectified, Botanic magazine, 5, 21–22. https://www.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Botanic-Mag-Vol-5-web.pdf

Home, R.W., Maroske, S., Lucas, AM. & Lucas. P.J. (1992). Why explore Antarctica?: Australian discussions in the 1880s, Australian journal of politics and history, 38, 386–413. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1992.tb00682.x

Maroske, S. (1992). The queen of aquatics: Victoria amazonica, Australian garden history, 3(5), 3–6.

Maroske, S. & Cohn, H.M. (1992). ‘Such ingenious birds’: Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria, Muelleria, 7, 529–553.

Cohn, H.M. (1991). ‘“Our botanical heritage” exhibition’, Botanic magazine, 4, 39–40.

Maroske, S. (1991). Planting the Melbourne General Cemetery: the contribution of Ferdinand von Mueller, Australian garden history, 2(5), 3–7.

Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. & Cohn, H.M. (1991). Ferdinand von Mueller's library, Botanic magazine, 4, 17–23.

Maroske, S. (1990). At Ferdinand von Mueller’s house, December 1894, Australian garden history, March/April, 1.

Cohn, H.M. (1990). ‘Some foundations of science in Victoria in the decade after separation’, unpublished Master of Arts thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne.

Lucas, A.M. (1989). Retrieving biology’s past: the Mueller Correspondence Project, Biologist, 36, 126–128.

Cohn, H.M. (1989). Ferdinand Mueller, government botanist: the role of William Hooker in his appointment, Muelleria, 7, 99–102.

Lucas, A.M. (1988). Baron von Mueller: protege turned patron, in R. W. Home (ed.) Australian science in the making, pp. 132–152, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Womersley, H.B.S. & Sinkora, D.M. (1987). Mueller Correspondence, ASBS newsletter, 52, 11–13.

Womersley, H.B.S. & Sinkora, D.M. (1987). Ferdinand Mueller’s earliest Australian plant collections, Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 52, 11–13. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61062942

Muir, T.B. & Sinkora, D.M. (1976). The correct citation for Typhonium liliifolium, Muelleria, 3(3), 208. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49824754

 

Book chapters

Maroske, S. (2011). Eugene von Guérard and rainforests. In Ruth Pullin, ed., Eugene von Guérard:Nature Revealed (Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria), pp. 156-57.

Home, R.W. (2008). Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von. In New dictionary of scientific biography, vol. 5, pp. 204–209. Thomson Gale, Detroit & London.

Home, R.W. (2005). Science. In A. Brown-May and S. Swain (eds). The encyclopedia of Melbourne, pp. 640–645. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Lucas, A.M. (2004) Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller (1825-1896). In H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Eds. ) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 39, p. 642-644, (OUP), 2004.

Voigt, J. H. (2001) "On Virgin Soil": Freiherr Ferdinand von Mueller in Australia. A European Scientist's Search for Identity. In John Docker and Gerhard Fischer (eds. ) Adventures of Identity: European Multicultural Experiences and Perspectives. Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

Home, R.W. (2000). Emigrants or scientific travellers?: Ferdinand Mueller and Georg Neumayer between Germany and Australia. In E.I. Mitchell (ed.), Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, pp. 11–19. La Trobe University, Bundoora (Plenty Valley papers, 3).

Maroske, S. (2000). Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853–96. In E.I. Mitchell (ed.), Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, pp. 24–20. La Trobe University, Bundoora (Plenty Valley papers, 3).

Gillbank, L. and Maroske, S. (1996). Behind the botany of the Horn Expedition: Ferdinand Mueller's documentation of the larapintine flora. In S.R. Morton and D.J. Mulvaney (eds), Exploring Central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, pp. 209–224. Surrey Beatty, Chipping Norton.

Home, R.W. (1994). Science as a German export to nineteenth century Australia. Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute for Commonwealth Studies (Working papers in Australian studies, 104).

Maroske, S. (1993). The whole great continent as a present: nineteenth-century Australian women workers in science. In F. Kelly (ed.), On the edge of discovery, pp. 13–34. Text Publishing, Melbourne.

Lucas, A.M. (1988). Baron von Mueller: protege turned patron. In R.W. Home(ed.), Australian science in the making, pp. 132–152. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

 

Books

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M., Voigt, J.H. and Wells, M. (eds) (2006). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 3: 1876–1896. Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. and Voigt, J.H. (eds) (2002). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 2: 1860–1875. Peter Lang, Bern.

Home, R.W., Lucas, A.M., Maroske, S., Sinkora, D.M. and Voigt, J.H. (eds) (1998). Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, vol. 1: 1840–1859. Peter Lang, Bern.

Voigt, J.H. (1996). Die Erforschung Australiens: der Briefwechsel zwischen August Petermann und Ferdinand von Mueller 1861–1878. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha.