The citation ‘Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy’ is prominent in late nineteenth-century taxonomic publications associated with the flora of tropical Queensland. John Dallachy (1804–71) was employed as a botanical collector by the Melbourne Botanic Garden under the directorship of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Between 1864 and 1871, Dallachy resided in the Rockingham Bay area where he collected ~3500 botanical specimens of which ~400 were described as new taxa of flowering plants, ferns, fungi and bryophytes, making him Mueller’s most prolific collector of type specimens, apart from Mueller himself. In this, the first of two articles about Dallachy, we outline the origin, and development of this successful botanical collaboration, identifying the experiences and qualities that prompted Dallachy to become a botanical collector, the friendship that formed between Mueller and Dallachy in the face of Dallachy’s reversal of fortunes at the Melbourne Botanic Garden, and the circumstances that led to Dallachy and Mueller’s shared project to investigate the botanical riches of the floristically diverse Wet Tropics Bioregion.

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John Dallachy (1804–71)：从园丁到植物收藏家

在 19 世纪后期与热带昆士兰植物群相关的分类学出版物中，引用“Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy”是突出的。约翰·达拉奇 (John Dallachy) (1804–71) 在费迪南德·冯·穆勒男爵 (Baron Ferdinand von Mueller) 的领导下受雇为墨尔本植物园的植物收藏家。1864 年至 1871 年间，达拉奇居住在罗金厄姆湾地区，在那里他收集了约 3500 个植物标本，其中约 400 个被描述为开花植物、蕨类植物、真菌和苔藓植物的新分类群，这使他成为穆勒最多产的模式标本收藏家，除了穆勒本人。在这篇关于达拉奇的两篇文章中的第一篇中，我们概述了这一成功植物学合作的起源和发展，确定了促使达拉奇成为植物收藏家的经验和品质，