This is the list of the materials Dietrich shipped to Australia when she first arrived, provided by Godeffroy. All this was necessary for the collecting and preservation of her specimens(1).

• 1 magnifying glass
• 1 microscope
• 25 retorts
• 6 insect cases
• 10 reams of paper
• rags for packing
• 6 tins of alcohol
• 20 lb of plaster of Paris
• 20 lb of oakum
• 100 glass phials with large stoppers
• 3 quires of tissue paper
• 5 quires of brown paper
• 4 flasks of shot
• 10 lb of powder
• 1 box of percussion caps
• 2 boxes of poison
• 4 boxes for live snakes and lizards
• 3 casks of salt
• 1 box of insect pins

(1) Ray Sumner, A Woman in the Wilderness, The Story of Amalie Dietrich in Australia, NSW University Press, Kensington, 1993, p.16