Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists
By Penny Olsen
In her new National Library of Australia publication, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists, acclaimed natural history writer Penny Olsen pieces together a remarkable story of a bachelor botanist and his search for female collectors to help him realise his passion - to find and catalogue Australian plants and put them on the world map.

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