[Sinkora papers: correspondence and working files about the history of Australian botany, Ferdinand von Mueller and the collections of the National Herbarium of Victoria.]

Working files of Doris M. Sinkora assembled while she was employed at the National Herbarium of Victoria. There are 4 major groups of material: 1 - Algae (correspondence June 1977-December 1992 principally with J. Huisman, R. J. King, A. Millar, H. Ohba, M. Parsons, I. Price, W. F. Prud'homme van Reine, R. Sheath, P. Silva, E. Wollaston, H. B. S. Womersley and M. Wynne; specimen loans correspondence and forms 1974-1992; specimen exchanges; vandalised and missing specimens; algae collected by Sinkora); 2 - botanists and collectors (correspondence 1977-1988 about historical specimens in the Herbarium, especially types of South American Myrtaceae; biographical information of W. Hillebrand, N. Binder, J. Lehmann, J. Steetz, E. Steudel, L. Treviranus; handwriting samples particularly in relation to the Sonder and Steetz herbaria; working typescript copy of "Preliminary catalogue of extra-Australian specimens (...), by A. B. Court); 3 - the life and publications of Ferdinand von Mueller (correspondence 1975-1991 particularly in relation to the compilation of a bibliography of Mueller's publications and the location of his correspondence; notes and extracts from published sources about Mueller's life); 4 - Hermann Beckler (transcriptions and translations of his diary and his letters to his brother Carl). Also included are minutes from Herbarium staff meetings (1984-1992) and translations done by Sinkora.