. Journal of botany, British and foreign . their emigration to the more genial climate of thesunny south. Accordingly Dr. Mueller and his sisters set sail, andarrived in Port Adelaide in December, 1817. His capital was limitedmainly to his brains, so he had to find something to do, and readilygot and accepted employment in the chemists shop of Heuzenroeder,in Rundle-street. Adelaide was not then what it is now, and onehad not to go far afield to got l)eyond the reach of civilization. All Journal of Botany.—Vol. 35. [July, 1897.] t 274 FERDINAND VON MUKLLER. his spare time was spent in studying
. Journal of botany, British and foreign . their emigration to the more genial climate of thesunny south. Accordingly Dr. Mueller and his sisters set sail, andarrived in Port Adelaide in December, 1817. His capital was limitedmainly to his brains, so he had to find something to do, and readilygot and accepted employment in the chemists shop of Heuzenroeder,in Rundle-street. Adelaide was not then what it is now, and onehad not to go far afield to got l)eyond the reach of civilization. All Journal of Botany.—Vol. 35. [July, 1897.] t 274 FERDINAND VON MUKLLER. his spare time was spent in studying the new tlora with which hefound himself surrounded, and in connection with this work he madeexpeditions to various parts, then, it must be remembered, difficultof access and peopled with not too friendly natives, such as theMurray scrubs, Guichen Bay, and Mount Brown, the highest pointof the Flinders Fiauge, gaining in this way his first insight into theAustralian flora, which lie was subsequently destined to do so muchto Having bought some land in the Bugle Ranges, it was apparentlyat one time his idea to settle down there and cultivate it. Doubtlesshe intended to have his home in this spot, and to make, whenpossible, expeditions in various directions. At any rate, he hadalready devote 1 a considerable amount of time and energy tocollecting plants and noting facts relative to the flora, his earlierpapers being written in conjunction with Dr. Bonder, and publishedin Liniuea. The life on the land did not, however, prove at allattractive, and in a very short time we find him back again inAdelaide, once more engaged in his old occupation. In 1852, at the time of the gold rush, be was attracted to this FERDINAND VON MELLIiR. 275 colony. Evidently his reputation as a botanist had preceded him,for in the same year Governor Latrobe appointed him GovernmentBotanist to the colony of Victoria, and from that time onward hedevoted himself with untiring, and one might almos
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