Biology in Australia – Its History and Successes

Botany Bay, on the east coast of Australia and a few miles south of Sydney Harbour, is famous on two counts. Historically, it was the site originally chosen by the British government for founding a penal colony and, despite the fact that no convicts were actually landed there, it became in convict-lore and folksong the symbol of the infamous system by which Australia was first colonised. Its second claim to fame, and one to which the first is not unrelated, is that it is the locality that saw the birth of Australian biology and, more generally, Australian science

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