ABSTRACT
Eucalyptus oil was distilled as early as 1788, the first year of white settlement in Australia, when Governor Phillip sent a sample to Sir Joseph Banks, and in 1790, John White, the SurgeonGeneral, despatched a quart of oil of Eucalyptus piperita to England. However, it was not until 1852 that a still was set up for the commercial distillation of eucalyptus oil. Joseph Bosisto, who had emigrated from England four years earlier, established his still on Dandenong Creek, about 40 km southeast of Melbourne, with the encouragement of Ferdinand von Mueller, then Government Botanist in Victoria.
