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Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller
,
KCMG
(German:
Müller
) (30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a
German-Australian
physician
,
geographer
, and most notably, a
botanist
. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria by Governor
Charles La Trobe
in 1853, and later director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
. He also founded the
National Herbarium of Victoria
. He named many Australian plants.
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