b-'li PRESIDENT S ALlDRESS. 



A very interesting memento of Captain King, in the Society's library, is the 

 copy of J. D. Hooker's "Flora Autarctiea" being Section i. of "The Botany of 

 the Antarctic Voyage," inscribed and presented to him by the author. This was 

 subsequently handed over to his eldest sou, Phillip Gidley King, who generously 

 gave it to the Society in 1882, when the Council was trying to repla<-e the original 

 lilirary destrnyed in the Garden Palace Fire. 



The Honourable Phillip Gidley King, M.L.C., (1817-1904) was an Original 

 Member of the Society, and, for six years, a Member of the Council . An 

 obituary notice uf liini, which includes his own account of his experiences as 

 cabin-mate of Charles Darwin on tlie voyage of the "Beagle," and as his com- 

 panion on some of Darwin's land-excursions, will be found in the Society's Pro- 

 ceedings, 1905, p. 5. Darwin paid a visit to Captain King, at "Dunheved," St. 

 Marj''s, on his return-journey from Bathurst, in January, 183(5. 



The Rev. Robert Lethbridge King, second son of Kenr- Admiral King, was a 

 valued friend and correspondent of both W. S. Macleay, and William Macleay; 

 and a keen entomologist. The memorials of W. S. Macleay include an excellent 

 pencil-sketch by Mr. King, of a remarkable Pselaphid beetle, initialled, and 

 dated, Parramatta, A]iril 4, 1858; and a very interesting letter dated July 28th, 

 1859, in which Mr. King says — "I send you a sketch in pen-and-ink [on p. 3 of 

 the letter] of two ferns in my friend, Mr. Woolls' herbarium: Do you recognise 

 them as South Sea Islanders? I should be very glad to introduce Mr. W. to 

 you, that he might have a look over your garden. He is taking a very great 

 interest in the science, and has a good knowledge of our Parramatta ferns. I 

 think a trip to Elizabeth Bay would encourage him — if you will allow me to 

 introduce him. I have had the Eucnhiiitus fibibulu,-' (1 think) in flower in my 

 garden . Gen . Macarthur gavH me a small plant 2 years ago . It is now 12ft . 

 I think I wi'ote you before of the change of leaf — from sessile and amplexicaul, 

 and opposite, to peduncled (?) and alternate." Dr. Woolls was duly introduced, 

 and became W. S. Maeleay's friend and correspondent. 



In Mr. King's ]>aper on Pselaphidae. in the Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. Wales 

 (Vol. i., p. 54), he described several species from specimens found by W. S. 

 Macleay in his garden at Elizabetli Bay, and acknowledges his indebtedness for 

 them. He mentions also that he had found a single specimen of one of them 

 on the sea-beach in the same locality. 



Dr. Leichliardt presented some insects to W. S. Macleay, as mentioned in 

 one of William Maeleay's papers. But this is all the available information 

 about their intercourse. 



Sir AVilliam Macarthur (1800-82) of ("aniden was a ti-iend of all the 

 Macleays. He exchanged plants with Alexander Macleay. and afterwards with 

 W. S. Macleay. He was a neighbour of George Macleay at Brownlow Hill, for 

 more than thirty-one years. Both of them, as well as James Macarthur, and 

 others, were Magistrates in the ilistrict of Camden and Nni-ellan. He was also 

 a friend of William Macleay. Details of their friendship arc given later. Sir 

 William Macarthur was an Original Member and the first Vice-President of our 

 Society. Captain Arthur Onslow, R.N., grandson, on his mother's side, of 

 Alexander Macleay, married the dangliter of .Tames Macarthur, of Camden, in 1867. 



W. S. Macleay corresponded with Baron von Mueller, but no letters are avail- 

 sble. The Baron, in the Eucalyptographia, und(>r E. Foflscliiamt, refers to some re- 



