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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-02-19 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006281b.htm person Sewell Julia AACR2 c. 1847 June 1914 Place of Birth near Northam, Western Australia, Australia Place of Death Gilga, Western Australia, Australia Botanical collector Julia Sewell was a plant collector in southwestern Western Australia where her family ran sheep and cattle stations. Between 1882 and 1892 she collected around Mount Caroline, the Swan River, Bunbury and Geographe Bay. She sent her specimens to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 1,000 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria, as are some collected by her cousins Geraldine Allen Sewell (1861 - 1900) and Maud Amy Sewell (1875 - 1955). Sewell, Geraldine Allen (1861 - 1900)

Geraldine and Julia were cousins.

 National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

Over 1,000 of Sewell's specimens are in the Herbarium.

 'Sewell, Julia', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sewell, Julia Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 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