Francis Robert Muter Wilson (1832–1903), Presbyterian minister at Kew, Melbourne, was arguably Australia's first lichenologist.
He came to Australia in 1862 to minister at Kew, but developed an interest in the natural world.
His collecting trips took him to Lorne, Lakes Entrance, Ferntree Gully, Brisbane, Sydney and Suva, Fiji.
However the latter set was sent to the Italian botanist Giacomo Albo to be studied, and was lost in transit, never to be recovered.
[2] Specimens collected by Wilson are cared for at the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, and Te Papa, Aotearoa New Zealand.