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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2012-07-06 human Rebecca Rigby and Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005208b.htm corporateBody Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne State of Victoria AACR2 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1958 Start Place South Yarra, Victoria, Australia Location Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, Victoria Botanic garden Horticulture Conservation or Environment The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the successor of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, continues its work as a scientific institution, a place of education about plants, and a major open space for the city of Melbourne. Its constituent parts are: the National Herbarium of Victoria, one of Australia's principal scientific plant collections, where research is conducted on the Victorian and Australian floras; the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne which specialises in Australian plants; and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology. With the passing of the Royal Botanic Gardens Act 1991 the Gardens came under the administration of the Royal Botanic Gardens Board (with effect from 1 July 1992) as a statutory authority. In June 2015 the name was changed to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Until 1991 the Director was concurrently the Victorian Government Botanist.

The Gardens has been administered by these Victorian Government authorities:
1958 - 1983 Department of Crown Lands and Survey
1983 - 1990 Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands
1990 - 1992 Department of Conservation and Environment
1992 - Royal Botanic Gardens Board

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Colony and State of Victoria (1846 - 1958) Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin (Dick) (1905 - 1986)

Director and Government Botanist 1957-1970

 Willis, James Hamlyn (Jim) (1910 - 1995)

Acting Director 1970 - 1971

 Churchill, David Maughan (1933 - 2019)

Director and Government Botanist, 1971 - 1985

 Moors, Philip James (1948 - )

Director 1992 - 2012

 Cohn, Helen Margaret (1951 - )

Library Manager 1980 - 2011

 Knox, Robert Bruce (Bruce) (1938 - 1997)

Member, Maud Gibson Trust Committee 1986 - 1997; Member, Botanic Gardens Research Committee 1986 - 1997

 Chambers, Thomas Carrick (1930 - 2023)

Chairman, Maud Gibson Trust Committee 1974 - 1986; Chairman, Botanic Gardens Research Committee 1974 - 1986

 Wadham, Samuel MacMahon (1891 - 1972)

Member, Maud Gibson Trust Committee 1956 - 1972; Member, Botanic Gardens Research Committee 1965 - 1972

 Turner, John Stewart (1908 - 1991)

Chairman, Maud Gibson Trust Committee 1952 - 1973; Chairman, Botanic Gardens Research Committee 1965 - 1973

 National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - ) Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology (ARCUE), Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (1998 - 2016) Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens Board, State of Victoria (1992 - )

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 'Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne Morris, Deborah (text) and Elms, Greg (photographs) The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne Crows Nest Allen & Unwin 2001 Journal Article: Relief from Duties of Minor Importance - the Removal of Baron von Mueller from the Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara Relief from Duties of Minor Importance - the Removal of Baron von Mueller from the Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens 1996 Victorian Historical Journal 67 1 103-127 Review: Historical Records of Australian Science Payne, Pauline 2002 Historical Records of Australian Science 14 2 226-227 Journal Article: 150 Years: the National Herbarium of Victoria, 1853-2003 Cohn, Helen M. 150 Years: the National Herbarium of Victoria, 1853-2003 2003 Muelleria 17 3-14 Book: A People Learning: Colonial Victorians and their Public Museums Fennessy, Kathleen M. A People Learning: Colonial Victorians and their Public Museums Melbourne Australian Scholarly Publishing 2007 Journal Article: Improving Australianness: the Native Plant Breeding Project at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1949-1957 McMahon, Philippa Improving Australianness: the Native Plant Breeding Project at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 1949-1957 2007 Australian Studies 20 55-76 Journal Article: Public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1870 Maroske, S.; and May, A. Public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1870 1993 Australian Garden History 4 4 8-14 Book: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 Pescott, Richard Thomas Martin The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a history from 1845 to 1970 Melbourne Oxford University Press 1982 Journal Article: Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a Select Annotated Bibiliography Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a Select Annotated Bibiliography 1996 Victorian Historical Journal 67 1 167-174 Journal Article: A Tale of Two Animals: Camel and Alpaca - Zoological Shaping of Mueller's Botanic Gardens Gillbank, Linden A Tale of Two Animals: Camel and Alpaca - Zoological Shaping of Mueller's Botanic Gardens 1996 Victorian Historical Journal 67 1 83-102 Journal: Melbourne's Pride and Glory: 150 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Lemon, Andrew Melbourne's Pride and Glory: 150 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens 1996 Victorian Historical Journal 67 1 Book: The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] Pescott, R. T. M. The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] [Melbourne] 1984 Book Section: The historic landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Cohn, Helen M. The historic landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne North Ryde, N.S.W. Craftsman House 1998 A garden for all seasons: an artist’s view of the Royal Botanic Gardens Graham, A. M. 32-40 Book: Wonder: 175 years of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Cunningham, Sophie; and Wilmoth, Peter Wonder: 175 years of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Richmond, Vic. Hardie Grant Books 2021 Journal Article: Gladioli Envy and the Melbourne Botanic Garden's Native Plant Project McMahon, Philippa Gladioli Envy and the Melbourne Botanic Garden's Native Plant Project 2009 Australian Garden History 21 1 14-17 Conference Paper: Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller Maroske, Sara Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller Canberra Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton 35-38 Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (1832), River Red Gum - the 'Separation Tree' Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (1832), River Red Gum - the 'Separation Tree' 23 January 2013 This tree was the location of celebrations of Victoria becoming a separate colony 15 November 1850. Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (1832), River Red Gum - the 'Separation Tree' Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (1832), River Red Gum - the 'Separation Tree' 23 January 2013 This tree was the location of celebrations of Victoria becoming a separate colony 15 November 1850. This image shows damage to the trunk of the tree. Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith Eucalypt lawn, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Eucalypt lawn, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 23 January 2013 Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje, Ailie Smith

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