Cliff Beauglehole was an orchardist at Portland, Victoria, who throughout hislife took an intense interest in the plants of Victoria. Over his lifetime he collected 90,000 plant specimens as part of a comprehensive study of Victoria's plants and wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the 13 study areas of the Victorian and Conservation Council.A mounted botanical specimen.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, todea barbara, austral king-fern, osmundaceae

Certificate from Austral Literary and Debating Society's Annual Musical Elocutionary & Literary Competitions in Bendigo 1903. Certificate is printed on thick cream cardboard. A wide plain border surrounds a coloured ornate certificate of mainly pink and green. Decoration is of cherubs and muses, fleur de lys, scrollwork and ferns. Certificate for Second Prize was awarded for Piano Duet Under 16 and was won by Misses Kathleen and Mary Foster. Certificate is signed by President E Cahill and General Secretary Frederic A King.AUSTRAL LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETYdocument, certificate, music

Certificate from Austral Literary and Debating Society's Annual Musical Elocutionary & Literary Competitions in Bendigo 1903. Certificate is printed on thick cream cardboard. A wide plain border surrounds a coloured ornate certificate of mainly pink and green. Decoration is of cherubs and muses, fleur de lys, scrollwork and ferns. Certificate for Second Prize was awarded for Piano Duet Under 16 and was won by Misses Kathleen and Mary Foster. Certificate is signed by President E Cahill and General Secretary Frederic A King.AUSTRAL LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETYdocument, certificate, music