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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2017-11-28 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005901b.htm person Brooks Sarah Theresa AACR2 19 September 1850 23 September 1928 Place of Birth Plymouth, United Kingdom Place of Death Norseman, Western Australia, Australia Plant collector Sarah Brooks was a plant collector whose family came to Australia in 1851, settling first in Victoria and moving to Western Australia in 1874 where they were pioneer settlers in the Israelite Bay and Mt Ragged areas. She began collecting plant specimens in response to an advertisement Ferdinand von Mueller had placed in Western Australian newspapers. Over 900 specimens collected around Israelite Bay (1883 - 1893) and Mt Ragged (1886) remain in the National Herbarium of Victoria. Brooks' brother John Paul Brooks, and her mother, Emily Brooks, also collected specimens for Mueller. 1851 1851 Life event - Migrated to Victoria with her family 1874 1874 Life event - Moved to Western Australia 1877 1898 Life event - Lived at Israelite Bay, Western Australia 1898 1898 Life event - Moved to Balbinia Station, Western Australia National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 900 specimens collected by Brooks are in the Herbarium

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 Brooks, Sarah Theresa (18500919-19280923)

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 'Brooks, Sarah Theresa', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brooks, Sarah Theresa Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller Archer, B.; Maroske, S. Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller 1996 The Victorian naturalist 113 188-194 Journal Article: Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register 2014 Muelleria 32 92-172 Book: Born to command - not to take orders: the Brooks family of Balbinia Station, Israelite Bay, Western Australia Simpson, John Born to command - not to take orders: the Brooks family of Balbinia Station, Israelite Bay, Western Australia Fremantle, W.A. Hesperian Press 2017