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Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |
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LAAN, Adolf van der |
fl. 1717-1768 |
Botanical engraver (probably Dutch) |
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LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houtou ["Houton", "Houtton"] de |
1755-1834 |
French naturalist, botanist, author |
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LADIGES. Pauline Yvonne, Dr* |
1948- |
Numerical taxonomist, phylogenetic systematist, VIC |
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LAIDLAW, William |
-1925 |
Botanist, Gardens Director |
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LAING, Robert Malcolm |
1865- |
Naturalist |
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LAING, W. |
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LAIRD, Norman Ramsay |
1915-1978 |
Collector, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, TAS |
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LALLY, Terena |
fl.1990s-2000s |
Herbarium botanist, Perth and Canberra, WA, ACT |
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LAM, Johannes Herman, Prof.* |
1892-1977 |
Botanist |
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LAMARTINIERE. Bossieu |
fl. 1785-88 |
Medical officer, botanist |
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LAMBERT |
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Phycologist |
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LAMBTON, Alfred Harbord, Rev. |
1887-1979 |
Priest, Qld and PNG |
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LAMONT, Byron Bernard |
1945- |
Ecologist, physiologist |
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LAMONT, E., Miss |
fl. 1888 |
Phycologist |
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LAMONT, Eva Frances (later Mrs BOWKETT) |
1861-1945 |
Collected for Mueller in QLD |
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LAMONT, G.F., Miss |
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LAMONT, James, Rev. |
1844-1928 |
Presbyterian Moderator, UK, Hong Kong, NSW |
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LANDER, Nicholas Sean |
1948- |
Herbarium botanist, Asteraceae, Malvaceae, NSW, WA |
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LANDSBOROUGH, Miss |
fl.1890s |
Collected for Mueller near Toowoomba, QLD |
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LANDSBOROUGH, William |
1825-1886 |
Explorer, naturalist |
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LANE POOLE, Charles Edward |
1885-1970 |
Forest Inspector-General, writer, WA |
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LANG, John Dunmore, Rev., Dr |
1799-1878 |
Presbyterian minister, politician, writer |
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LANG, Peter John* |
1955- |
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LANG, William H., Prof |
1874-ob. |
Palaeobotanist |
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LANGDON |
fl. 1930s |
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LANGDON, Raymond Forbes Newton* |
1916- |
Botanist |
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LANGE, Robert Terence Dr* |
1934- |
Botanist, plant palaeobotanist |
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LANGFIELD, Ernest Clarence Boyd |
fl. 1948-52 |
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LANGLEY, Jean |
fl. 1960s |
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LANGLEY, Laurence Joseph |
1917-2007 |
Seed supplier (esp eucalypts), horticulturist, VIC, NSW |
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LANGOIS, Vincent Marie |
1756-? |
Botanical engraver, France |
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LANGDON, Raymond Forbes Newton |
1916-2014 |
Mycologist at Univ. Qld from 1940 to 1981, QLD |
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LANKESTER, A.E. |
fl. 1890s |
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LANYON, M. |
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Author, artist |
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LAPINPURO, Liisa |
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LARGE, Richard |
1882-1967 |
Forrester, NSW |
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LASERON, Charles Francis |
1887-1959 |
Antarctic expeditioner, museum curator, NSW |
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LASSAK, Erich V. |
1934-2015 |
Researched essential oils in Aust plants, NSW |
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LA TROBE, Charles Joseph |
1801-1875 |
Governor, city planner |
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LATTORFF, H. |
fl. 1880s |
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LATZ, Peter Kenneth* |
1941- |
Herbarium botanist, ethnobotanist, agrostologist, NT |
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LAU [LAW], Hermann |
fl. 1860s |
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LAUGHTON, Annie Watson |
1853-1903 |
Flower painter, watercolour and oil, Mt Lofty ranges, SA |
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LAUTERBACH, Carl Adolf George |
1864-1937 |
Botanist, in Aust Oct-Nov 1889, also PNG |
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LAUTERER, Joseph, Dr |
1848-1911 |
Medical Doctor, Phytochemist |
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LAVARACK, Peter S. (Bill) Dr |
1942- |
Botanist, orchidologist, QLD |
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LAVERY, H.J. |
fl. 1960s |
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LAW-SMITH, Joan, Lady* |
1919- |
Artist |
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LAWES, William George, Rev. |
1839-1907 |
Missionary |
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LAWLER, Len |
1925-2011 |
Orchid ethnologist, collector, QLD |
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LAWRENCE, Margaret Elizabeth |
1953- |
Botanist |
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LAWRENCE, Robert William |
1807-1833 |
Naturalist, plant collector, TAS |
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LAWSON, Abercrombie Anstruther |
1870-1927 |
Prof Botany Uni Sydney from 1913, NSW |
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LAWSON, John, Prof. |
El.1870s |
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LAWSON, Marmaduke Alexander, Prof |
1840--1896 |
Botanist |
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LAY, Brendan Gregory* |
1947- |
Ecologist |
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LAYARD |
fl. 1850s |
Algae collector |
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LAZARIDES, Michael* |
1928-2011 |
Botanist, agrostologist, with CSIRO Canberra, ACT |
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LEA, Arthur Mills |
1868-1932 |
Entomologist |
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LEA, Thomas Simcox, Rev. |
1857-1939 |
Anglican clergyman, UK, SA |
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LEACH |
fl. 1890s |
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LEACH, Gregory John, Dr* |
1952- |
University lecturer, herbarium botanist, NT |
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LEAFERS |
fl. 1890s |
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LEAKE, Georgiana Mary (nee Kingsford) |
1812-1896 |
Amateur flower painter, Perth, WA |
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LEAKE, Robert Buck |
c.1837-1924 |
Pharmaceutical chemist |
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LEARMONT, Noel Ful[ord |
1880-1970 |
Naturalist, historian |
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LEARY, E. |
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LEBLER, Beryl A., Mrs |
fl. 1970s |
Botanist |
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LEDGER, Charles |
1818-1905 |
Adventurer, plant/animal exporter |
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LEE, Alma T., Mrs, (née MELVAINE*) |
1912-1990 |
Botanist, initially CSIRO Canberra, later Herbarium Sydney, NSW |
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LEE, Arthur |
fl. 1900-15 |
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LEE, Helen Mary, Mrs, (née PURNELL*) |
1925- |
Botanist |
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LEE, Ida, see MARRIOI'T |
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LEE, Robert D. |
fl. 1940s |
Photographer, mycologist |
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LEECH, Penny |
1947 |
Botanical/architectural artist |
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LEFROY, John Henry, Sir |
1817-1890 |
Governor |
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LEFROY, de Courcy |
fl. 1885-1889 |
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LE GRAND |
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LEHMANN, Friedrich Carl |
1850-1903 |
German consul in Columbia, S America, amateur botanist; never visited Australia |
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LEHMANN, Johann Georg Christian |
1792-1860 |
Botanist/professor in Hamburg, Germany; never visited Australia |
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LEIBOLD, Fredrich Ernst |
1804-1864 |
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LEIBOLDT |
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LEICHHARDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, Dr |
1813-1848 |
Explorer, NSW, QLD |
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LEIGH, John Holland |
1936- |
Ecologist, grazing research, CSIRO, S.Africa, NSW, ACT |
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LEISMAN, Gilbert Arthur. Prof. |
1924- |
Botanist, palaeobotanist |
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LEMAIRE, Charles |
1800-1871 |
Botanical artist, France (did not visit Aust.) |
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LENDENFELD, Robert Lendlmayer von, Dr |
1858-1913 |
Phycologist, geologist, from Europe, SA, NSW, NZ |
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LE PLASTRIER, Constance M. |
fl. 1930s |
Author, ?botanist |
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LEPP, Heino |
fl. 1990s- |
Herbarium Associate, fungi curator, Aust National Herbarium, Canberra, ACT |
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LEPSCHI, Brendan John |
1969- |
Herbarium botanist, curator, nomenclature editor, Perth and Canberra, WA, ACT |
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LEQUERRE |
fl. 1908 |
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LESCHENAULT DE LA TOUR, Baptist Louis Theodore |
1773-1826 |
Botanist on Baudin's voyages, French |
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LE SOUEF, Albert Sherbourne |
1877-1951 |
Zoo director, NSW, VIC |
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LE SOUEF, William Henry Dudley |
1860-1923 |
(Botanical assistant ?) Zoo Director, Melbourne, VIC |
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LESSING |
fl. 1948 |
Botanist |
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LESSON, Pierre Adolphe [A.] |
1805-? |
Surgeon, botanist |
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LESSON, Rene Primevere |
1794-1849 |
Naturalist on ship Astrolabe, French |
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LESTANG, de |
fl. 1940s |
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LESTER, George Mackenzie, Archdeacon |
1861-1944 |
Anglican clergyman, Brisbane, Rockhampton, QLD |
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LESTER, Nita Clare |
fl.1990s-2000s |
Botanist, ecologist, artist, brigalow, south-east QLD |
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LE TALL, Benjamin Bower |
1858-1906 |
Botanist, teacher |
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LEVI, P. |
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Illustrator |
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LEVITT, Dulcie Carmen* |
1914-1994 |
Missionary, ethnobiologist, Groote Eylandt, NT |
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LEVRING, Carl Tore Christian [T.] |
1913-1980 |
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LEWELLIN, Madeline Mary Ravenna |
1854-1944 |
Fungal artist, collected for Mueller in VIC. |
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LEWIN, John William |
?1770-1819 |
Artist, UK, NSW |
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LEWIS, John W. |
fl. 1870s |
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LEWIS, N.B. |
fl. 1950s |
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LEWIS, Watkin E. |
fl. 1940s |
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LEYCESTER, Augustus Adolphus [?A.R.] |
-1892 |
Farmer, naturalist |
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L'HORSCHY |
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LHOTSKY, Johann [Jan] |
1795-1866 |
Explorer, naturalist, Ukraine, Brazil, NSW |
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LIDGETT, James |
1874-1941 |
Entomologist |
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LIDGEY, Ernest |
1863-?1909 |
Geologist, mining engineer, UK, VIC, WA |
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LILLEY, Miss |
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Lichenologist |
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LIND |
fl. 1873-74 |
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LINDER, Brita |
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LINDLEY, G. |
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Horticulturist |
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LINDON, L.H., Mrs |
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LINDSAY, Lionel Arthur |
1874-1961 |
Artist, engraver, occasionally of eucalypts, VIC |
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LINEY, Jennifer Fay, (Jenny) |
1931-2022 |
Botanist, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden, NSW |
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LISTER, Joseph Jackson |
1857-1927 |
Zoologist, Christmas Island expedition leader |
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LITTLE, Emma |
fl. 2020s |
Ecologist, bryologist, University of Tasmania, TAS |
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LITTLE, R. |
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LITTLEJOHN, Robert |
1756-1818 |
Naturalist |
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LOADER, Miss |
fl.1885 |
Collected for Mueller at Wakefield R., SA |
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LOBER, Angela |
fl. 2000s |
Botanical illustrator |
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LOCKWOOD, Leslie |
fl.1980s-1990s |
Horticulturist, records manager, author, ACT |
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LODDER, Mark |
fl.1970s |
Horticulturalist at ANBG, collected with E.M. Canning, ACT |
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LODDER, Mary, Miss |
1853-1911 |
Collected algae for Mueller in TAS |
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LODDIGES, George |
1784-1846 |
Botanical artist, UK |
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LODER, Andrew Charles |
1861-?1910 |
Assistant Forester |
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LODDER, Mark |
fl.1970s |
Horticulturalist at ANBG, CSIRO, esp. grasses 1970-80s, ACT |
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LODER, Mary, Mrs [suggest this is LODDER above] |
fl. 1889 |
Algae collector |
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LOFTHOUSE, Gerry B. |
fl.1978 |
Horticultural officer, Canberra Botanic Gardens, ACT |
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LOGUE, Kate French G. (later Mrs W.J. BLIGHT) |
1867-1968 |
Teacher, collected for Mueller in WA |
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LOMBE, Thomas Robert, Dr |
fl. 1840s |
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LONG, F.H. |
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LONGMAN |
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LONGMAN, Herber Albert |
1880-1954 |
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LOOKER, H. Waldo |
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LOPEZ, Enguidnos Vinz. |
fl. 1790s |
Botanical engraver, Spain |
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LORD, C. |
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LORD, Ernest Edward |
1899-1970 |
English-born horticulturist, garden curator, author, VIC |
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LORIA, A. |
fl. 1830s-40s |
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LOTHIAN, Thomas Robert Noel* |
1915-2004 |
Gardens Director, author, horticulturist, SA |
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LOUDON, Jane Wells |
1807-1858 |
Novelist and botanical artist, England, UK |
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LOVE, J.H. |
fl. 1882 |
Forester |
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LOVE, J.R.B., Rev. |
fl. 1930s |
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LOVEGROVE, Gertrude Louisa (married name BLACKET) |
1859-1961 |
Botanical artist, joint author with W.Bauerlen, NSW |
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LOVIS, John Donald, Prof. |
1930- |
Botanist |
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LOWE, R. |
fl. 1939-69 |
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LOWRIE, Allen |
1948-2021 |
Businessman, Drosera, Stylidium botanist, WA |
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LUCANUS, Augustus |
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LUCAS, Arthur Henry Shakespeare, Prof |
1853-1936 |
Phycologist, naturalist, mathematician, author, NSW |
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LUCAS, Robert |
fl. 1887 |
Carpenter |
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LUCAS, Thomas Pennington, Dr |
1843-1917 |
Medical doctor, naturalist, entomologist, collector, UK, VIC, QLD |
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LUCAS, W.H. |
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LUCHMANN |
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LUDBROOK, N.H., Dr |
fl. 1960s |
Geologist, paleobotonist |
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LUEHMANN, Johann Georg W. |
1843-1904 |
Government Botanist, writer, VIC |
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LUERSSEN, C. [?Christian] |
1843-? |
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LUGERT |
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LUKE, George |
fl.1960-1990s |
Scottish forester, Aust from 1960, QLD |
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LUKE, Robert Henry |
1909- |
Forester, fire authority, NSW |
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LUKIN, Laura (later Mrs Phillips) |
1857-1933 |
Collected for Mueller in WA |
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LULLFITZ, Frederick Conrad James |
1914-1983 |
Seed collector for Kings Park Botanic Gdns, consultant, WA |
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LUMHOLTZ, Carl Sophus |
1851-1922 |
Norwegian scientist, anthropologist, traveller, author, Aust.1880-1884, QLD |
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LUMLEY, Peter F. |
1938- |
Herbarium botanist, horticultural botanist, Vict. |
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LYALL, David, Dr |
1817-1895 |
Surgeon |
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LYCETT, Joseph |
?1774-?1825 |
Convict, artist, NSW |
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LYELL, George |
1866-1951 |
Entomologist, orchidologist, VIC |
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LYNCH |
fl. 1904-13 |
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LYND, B. |
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Naturalist |
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LYND, Robert [Lieutenant] |
1800-1851 |
Naturalist, fungal collector, NSW |
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LYNE, Andrew M. |
fl. 1990s |
Herbarium technician, collector, Aust National Herbarium, Canberra, ACT |
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LYNDON, S. |
before 1898 |
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LYONS, Robert (Bob) G. |
fl.1970s |
National Parks director, forests dept, SA |
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Surnames (Family names) starting with:
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* = information contributed by the collector/illustrator themselves (to Willis et al) pre 1986
^^ = information from: George, A.S. (2009) Australian Botanist's Companion, Four Gables Press, WA.
Last Updated on 24 April, 2025 by CHAH webmaster (cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au)