Manila folder labelled 'Sieber – DBM'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 29

Content Summary:

The Prague-born plant collector Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789–1844) collected botanical specimens in many parts of the world. He was in Mauritius between 22 December 1822 and 8 April 1823, and he arrived in New South Wales on 1 June 1823 and remained seven months. During his sojourn in Australia, he made a collection of some 1500 plant species. The folder contains copies of biographical and bibliographic entries on Sieber, including an extract from Gunn, M. Codd, L. E. Botanical exploration of southern Africa; An illustrated history of early botanical literature; Biographical accounts of the leading plantcollectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times, Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, 1981, pp. 322-3 and Wunschmann, E. 'Sieber, Franz Wilhelm', Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Band 34. Duncker Humblot, Leipzig 1892, S. 177–179. The folder also contains Duyker's draft entry for Sieber in the Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne (no. 61, avril 2012, pp. 2394–6)

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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