The death of Baron Ferd. Von Mueller, October 1896

Baron von Mueller was one who commenced life as a practical botanist. He took part in various explorations in Australia, and very rapidly gained for himself a name, and one which, with advancing years, became better known and more respected in the scientific world, till towards the end it might be questioned whether any living botanist stood hieher than the learned Baron. This Society owed him a very deep debt of gratitude for all he had done for it. From his earliest days in Victoria—the fifties—he constantly supplied contributions to this society, and whenever they had been at a loss on any botanical question or subject, he was ever ready to give them the advantage of his great knowledge, and that, too, in an unselfish and ungrudging spirit. Baron Von Mueller was one of those scientists who looked upon what he knew as not his own, but obtained for others. The humblest student of botany had but to apply to him to find that the great fountain of knowledge he possessed was ever ready to be poured forth for the benefit of anyone seeking to taste of the springs of botanical knowledge. Includes portrait of Baron Von Mueller.