Mary Preston’s notes on the Coochiemudlo Island Herbarium

We collected the specimens, pressed them, glued them, as artistically as we could onto sheets and labelled them – who, when and where they were found. Then we researched their botanic names using these resources and filed them. We enjoyed the company, the morning tea, learning about the Island’s flora and the feeling that we were doing something worthwhile. To explain why we felt it worthwhile we must go back in time.