famous antets i r crtHnori«l Bump iwd 



William Westall, trekked across the 

 plains ffO!H their ship the "Invcsii 

 gator", and accomplished the CXhtMS 

 live- ascent ul Mount lirown Thev 

 icliuiied lo ship on II March. \monr 

 the plains collected at this histoiie 



locality "Mead of Speocera GuliC 1 



were I lichoili xnw zcykmunm. I n- 

 luopliiln xritfxirin and LiriHOfihilti 

 i>lif>i>\iiiii)li,i Robert Brown's South 

 Aiisli.ihati collections arc described 



In him m Proiloiniix Hitman ftnilmv- 



ilitts fiJ InsiiUh- \ Diiiihti (I SKI) 



lhnl\ cie.hl years were Id pass 

 before Fdward John lyre on his 

 tourney north to c\plore interim 



disineis of South Australia, discovered 

 and named Rocky River, Mouul 



Remarkable and seveial olher lits- 

 lorie landmarks. Ii is lairlv ccrluin 

 that he made botanical collections 

 but ihesc were ..II lost alter being 

 sent lo Adelaide 



Di I lei in an Hails Belli who hoi., 

 uiscd extensively in the Bnunvi 

 Range and noith to lhe Ri\ei I iglit 

 had intended to visit Monni Remark 

 able in l&fi bill be loll South Aus- 

 tralia in ibe lirsi months of |S'50, 

 As Dr. Ferdinand von Mucllci tujd 

 llrhi ucu hmi tnends it is MOM 

 likely that it was he who urged 

 Mueller to undertake his momentous 

 /ournoy to the Flinders. Ranees m the 

 Spring of J 85 1, i believe it is signi- 

 ficant too that a bilingual advertise- 

 ment in the Fnehsh and German 

 languages appeared in an 1850 issue 

 of the Colonial Ncvvspapei /)•<■ 

 Dnuu he Post (fid, C. Koi nliaidl ) 

 advisins lhal 2(1.000 acres of |§pd ai 

 Mount Remarkable would be soon 

 open tor purchase. 



Although D. Mueller doo nor 

 K-ni.1 us an account of his botanical 

 actrvmes m the Southern Flinders 

 Range, he wrote a general version 

 ot the Flinders Range Rom "Die 

 Vegetation der Ciegendcn urn den 



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loi.eus See", m the <j cri „, . 

 pi'iiodical Hemburgei GartetZ 

 nhmnn.-auini: (ISSV). Bllfft 

 known fro|t) Hie labels 0 fl J 

 botanical eolleelions that be « 

 C i\sial H.ook on 7 October. 

 and in early October had cawjdri 



"" V, - K Mouni Remtitkj 

 Monni BrOWtl and Mount Am U i y 

 must have botaniscd at the f| t .J 

 Range dm. ne lhe middle of 0 L 

 tor he bail returned to Rock\ k 

 and Roekv <"reck by A Novcm^ 

 ISM 



In ISV', I)i Muellet descrihoJ • 

 I bndeis K.uii'c BOHections iii 1 

 XXV. In the same journal Will,,.,' 

 Sonder also dcsenhed a number n 

 Mueller's ( ui,ii>itsiu,f obtaineiJ „ 

 this nonhein evpedinon. h> f U |,| HI 

 illustrate lhe senpe of bis work an 

 his collcilintj l<Valitics in the I ,,,,, 

 I biiderv I have made a selection . 

 mhuc dj the no'.clties he niennon, 

 liwuiea. 

 PhjflkMhUt naostti and Cm 

 <vnth<i>\iiitliu — Crystal Bn-.n 

 HtHturttpium chchuntlunn it. 

 Solnnmn fitiiiophihiin — RiUs 

 Rkcj, ' h nr/iiim fjcnoiihilum - 

 llaruta iBaroola) and O,-. 

 Brook, Clwvw tuhiUvui—Cm-A 

 Brook and Rocky River; f ■,• 

 prtliu pn.-ii>n iituihi — Mount Biowt. 

 }'rrr>nin> ihrnmsn — Mount Kb 

 murkablc and Mount Brown 0 

 fflftl (HtlVt&fb and Dm i twin khuju 

 lo>i,> — Mount Remarkable- Iwtm 

 prrruva — Mnum Remarkable :M 

 bftHMlKll Valley i VVrlm.ngion.l.Ht 

 also Ivtaliiscd al Heelaloo \ alii 

 Bctore closing my remarks nn f)i 

 Mueller's journevs, I deem thol l». 

 lotlow.ng letter senl by MUdfa N 

 I I Umwn, arul quoiCil In the tdlft 

 in his h>re\t Hi>r,t of South Any 

 trutta is cijKim worth repealing hCK 



Tl.r'ohoihn, H.,hMih,,« 

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