746 president's address. 



systematist as regards Port Jackson plants, morphology and 

 physiology were his forte. For years he and I spent our Satur- 

 days together on botanical excursions, and I owe much to the 

 fatherly way in which he imparted instruction. An instance of 

 his diffidence in presenting statements is his reference to the 

 stigma in Boronia pinnata,^ Sm., in which he clearly indicated 

 the rediscovery of Sieber's B. Jiorihunda, which Mueller did not 

 agree to until several years later, f 



Woolls and Haviland were the two New South Wales botanists 

 to whom our Society in its early days owed most, and their per- 

 sonal influence upon young members a decade and a half and 

 more ago will long be felt with gratitude. Although not a 

 botanist, the founder of this Society, the late Sir William Macleay, 

 will ever be affectionately remembered by the older botanical 

 members. He used to organise all-day Saturday excursions to 

 interesting localities, always bearing in mind the wishes of 

 botanists; and if the places were difficult of access, the cost of 

 conveyance would be generously defrayed by himself, and usually 

 he would insist on bringing a well-stocked hamper of provisions. 

 He used to take great interest in our work, asking many questions, 

 and when we made a find he was as happy as we were. 



2. — Caley and Lew in. 



I have recently been fortunate enough to find, in the Vienna 

 herbarium, a number of Caley 's Eucalypts bearing dates between 

 the years 1805 and 1810, in most cases with the aboriginal names 

 in Caley's handwriting. Of 55 specimens 54 are determinable. 

 Robert Brown saysj : — " Mr. Caley has observed within the 

 limits of the colony of Port Jackson nearly 50 species of Eucal3^p- 

 tus, most of which are distinguished, and have proper names 

 applied to them, by the native inhabitants, who from differences 



* These Proceedings, vii., 397, 1882. 



t 2nd Census Aust. Plants, p. 18, 1889; these Proceedings, xxi. p. 503, 1896 



J Collected Worlcs, Eay Society, i., p. 18. 



