Photocopy of article in "The Age" 6 June, 1861 p5. Description of the Monthly Meeting of the Committee of the Horticultural Society of Victoria. Progress on fencing and clearing of 11 acres, cottage built for foreman. Dr Mueller had given a very valuable collection of trees, plants and shrubs.the age, rhsv, royal horticultural society of victoria, von mueller, donation of plants, fencing, establishment of experimental gardens, burnley gardens, cottage, foreman, curator, monthly meeting

Copy of article in "The Leader" (Melbourne) on 31 January 1891 p14. Description of meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the institution preparatory to handing it over to the Government. £1400 paid by the Government to cover debentures and liabilities.the leader, rhsv, royal horticultural society of victoria, winding up affairs, debts, government funding, debentures

BHS CollectionNine typed pages of notes on a preliminary draft for a brochure on the Bendigo Diggings. First part is the objective which is to preserve the mining history and to have exhibits in the places they were used, e.g. quartz mining machinery exhibited in a quartz mining area, not on an alluvial field. Part B is historical notes on the area. Part C is the Site - Victoria Hill area. Part D is Stage One which consists of carpark area, technological museum, restaurant, mineral haulage line, picnic ground, earthworks and planting over the area. Part E is Stage Two which will consist of the open-air exhibits, in the area surrounded by the mineral haulage line, and the Central Nell Gwynne mine on the west side of the site. Part F is Stage Three which will consist of the winery, the steam tram track, the lake, the wildlife sanctuary and various buildings associated with gold mining. Part G is Costing with the prices to be filled in. Parts H and I are the Appeal and the Committee. Details to be filled in.mining, marketing, victoria hill, victoria hill, the bendigo diggings - preliminary draft for brochure, aust national travel association, tullamarine jetport, emu bottom homestead, kyneton historical museum, chinese joss house, eaglehawk museum, whipstick scrub, cairn curran reservoir, castelmaine historical museum and market hall, national trust, ballarat hiatorical park, echuca's hopwood gardens, swan hill folk museum, gibson's mount alexander no 2 squatting run, captain brown, chief commissioner wright, hustler's reef, thomas hustler, mining board, drainage of reefs act 1862, first world war, bendigo amalgamated goldfields, second world war, sandhurst, w c vahland, battery trams, horse trams, steam trams, electric trams, central nell gwynne mine, theodore ballerstadt, george lansell, new chum hill, ballerstadt's open cut, 180 mine, new chum syncline battery, william rae, victoria quartz, wittscheibe's 'jeweller's shop', luffsman and sterry, gold mines hotel, adventure, bendigo and district tourist association, bendigo city council, bendigo branch of the royal historical society of victoria, professor brian lewis, school of architecture and building at the university of melbourne, taylor horsfield, lord robert cecil, south australian gold commissioner

Historic Guide to Bendigo. 5401 has Four(4) loose slips of paper at the front. Maps are in the back.The map of the goldfields shows Streets, Lines of Reef, and Principal shafts. Recommended for tourists, students, prospectors and historians. Produced by the Bendigo Branch of The Royal Historical Society of Victoria, which was compiled from material supplied by members, and edited by H. J. G. Biggs.Produced by the Bendigo Branch of The Royal Historical Society of Victoria, which was compiled from material supplied by members, and edited by H. J. G. Biggs.bendigo, history, city history. the goldfields.