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Visited Queensland from December 1909 until April 1910 with the geologist
Jíri Danes (see Hall, 1984, for biography)
as part of an expedition to Java and Australia. Their itinerary extended from
Cairns to Brisbane, and inland as far as Hughenden, Cloncurry, Winton and
Longreach.
Domin also briefly visited the Blue Mountains near Sydney, New
South Wales.
On his return he studied additional material in K (particularly
the collections of Captain A.A.Dorrien Smith (south-western Western Australia)
and Dr E.Clement (north-western Western Australia), see Hall, 1979, 1984)
and GOET, and was given a set of Amalie Dietrich's
Queensland collections. From these sources he published a series of important
works on Australian taxonomy and phytogeography in Repertorium specierum
novarum regni vegetabilis (1911-1913), J. Linn. Soc., (Bot.) (1912),
and Bibliotheca Botanica Vols 85 and 89 (1913-1915, 1921, 1925-1930).
Domin's main Australian collection of about 4000 specimens (including duplicates
from Dietrich, Clement and perhaps others) is housed separately at PR. His
non-Australian collections are at PRC. Some specimens (including some grass
Types) are at K and L.
Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic
Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed.,
ABRS. [consult for source references]
Data from 261 specimens in Australian herbaria