> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 841](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120972) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12499-1) LSID 12499-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3281581) QID Q3281581 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fitzgerald (FitzGerald), Robert David (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Fitzgerald, Robert Desmond (1830-1892), Australian deputy surveyor-general and botanical artist of Irish birth, in Sydney from 1856. **Abbreviated name**: *Fitzg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fitzg.*\] #### Herbarium and types Fitzgerald made some orchid-collections, specimens of which are at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection MEL|MEL]]. He left no herbarium. *Ref*.: IH 2: 199. - Maiden, J. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 102. 1908. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 547; BB p. 109; BM 2: 580; Bossert p. 127; CSP 9: 878, 12: 240, 15: 3; GFB p. 56; Jackson p. 399; NI 633. - Mueller, J. Bot. 30: 320. 1892. - Anon., Victorian Naturalist 9: 75-76. 1893. - Maiden, J. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 102. 1908 (portr., *pl. 12*). - Messmer, Victorian Naturalist 48: 233-242. 1932. #### Name Desmond seems to be the correct second christian name (Maiden, 1908, based on orig. sources); other sources have David (e.g. BB) or Douglas (BM, CSP). ### Publications ##### n.1799. Australian orchids **Title** *Australian orchids*. Sydney (Charles Potter) \[1875\]-1882\[-1894\] 2 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Austral. orch.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in parts of circa 10 plates each; in all 118 coloured lithographs plus one uncoloured. The colouring of the plates is mostly by hand; the drawings were all by the author, the lithographing by the author and Arthur J. Stopps. |vol. |part |dates | |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |Jul 1875 | | |2 |Mar 1876 | | |3 |Jun 1877 | | |4 |Jul 1878 | | |5 |Oct 1879 | | |6 |Jul 1880| | |7 |Oct 1882| |2 |1 |Jan 1884| | |2 |Jul 1885| | |3 |Mar 1888 (1886?)| | |4 |Mar 1888| | |5 |1894| Vol. 2, part 5 was completed posthumously from Fitzgerald's notes by Henry Deane in 1894. The contents of all parts are listed on the back wrappers of 2(4) and 2(5); these lists contain one or two name-changes not given elsewhere in the book. The drawings are all by Fitzgerald, almost invariably from fresh specimens; the lithographs are by A. J. Stopps. Complete Copies of the book are now very rare (*Copy*: US). *Ref*.: BM 2: 580; GF p. 56 (Stearn); Jackson p. 399; NI 633.