> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 422](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355509) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12681-1) LSID 12681-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531358) QID Q531358 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Meredith, Louisa Anne, née Twamley (1812-1895), British botanical artist, bush naturalist, writer and poetess; settled in Australia 1839 (mainly N.S.W. and Tasmania) **Abbreviated name**: *Meredith* \[standard form in IPNI: *Meredith*\] #### Herbarium and types There is no material at [[Collection MEL|MEL]] (inf. B. M. Churchill); the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, holds 42 paintings of Tamanian plants by L.A.M. (inf. W. M. Curtis); some algae are at [[Collection HO|HO]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 477; Blunt p. 220; BM 3: 1289, 5: 2156; Desmond p. 434; HR; IH 2: 528; Jackson p. 38, 39, 235, 402: Kew 3: 657; NI 1338-1339; Plesch p. 334 (q.v. for her "The Romance of nature"); PR 6104; Rehder 1: 505; Tucker 1: 480. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. Brit. Amer. auth. 1267. 1870. - Anon., Austral. Encycl. 6: 57. 1956. - Carpenter, M. M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33: 68. 1935 (biogr. refs.). - Craig, C., Old Tasmanian prints, 170-181. 1964 (full details on L.A.M's flower books and prints). - Curtis, W. M., *in* Tasmanian Wildflowers, botanical drawings by Louisa Meredith (1812-1895) Margaret Stones, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery 23 Oct – 11 Nov 1973 (cat. exhibit.). - Dixson, W., J. Proc. Austral, hist. Soc. 7: 215. 1921. - Ferguson, J. A., Bibliography of Australia 6: 654-656. 1965. - Froggatt, W. W., Austral. Natural. 5(12): 182-184. 1924. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 254. 1977. - Maiden, J. H., Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 1909: 21-22; Roy. Soc. Tasmania, Proc. 1909: 13-14. - Mennell, P., Dict. Australas. Biogr. 320. 1892 (fide BB). - Meredith, L. A., My home in Tasmania during a residence of nine years, London, John Murray, 1852, 2 vols. Duod.; Over the straights. London 1861; Notes and sketches of New South Wales. London 1861; Travels and stories in our gold colonies. London \[c. 1865\]; Our island home. A. Tasmanian sketch book. London 1879; Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, fumed. Hobart Town 1880. - O'Neill, S., Austral. Dict. biogr. 5: 239-240. 1974. - Phillip, M., Dict. Austral. Biogr. 1855-1892, 320. 1892. - Swann, M., J. Proc. Austral. hist. Soc. 15: 3-14. 1929 (b. 20 Jul 1820, d. 21 Oct 1895; biogr.). #### Eponymy *Meredithea* J. G. Agardh (1892). ### Publications ##### n.5842. Some of my bush friends in Tasmania **Title** *Some of my bush friends in Tasmania* native flowers, berries and insects drawn from life illustrated in verse and brightly described by Louisa Anne Meredith... London (by Day & Son,...) 1860. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Bush friends Tasmania*. **Notes** *Orig*.: 1860 (preface 6 Aug 1859), lith. t.p., p. \[i\*, iii\*\], \[i\]-ii, \[1\]-100, *pl. 1-11* (col.), 1 (uncol.). *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, Bot. Zeit. 18: 156. 27 Apr 1860 (from Athenaeum).