784 president's address. 



Trimen, of the botanical department of the British Museum, 

 dealt with the plants collected by him. 



Between 1872 and 1876, Ernest Giles conducted five expeditions, 

 in the last of which he crossed the continent from Perth to 

 Melbourne, and in all collected many thousands of plants which, 

 however, with the exception of those of the first two expeditions, 

 were lost. Those saved were classified and named by Mueller, 

 and included in an appendix to Giles' book, " Australia Twice 

 Traversed." 



The botanical map of Australia, so to speak, having now been 

 fairly well drawn and filled up, with the exception of spaces here 

 and there left to be dealt with by future workers, it is not necessary 

 to go laboriously into the accounts of all botanical discoveries 

 which have followed those before-mentioned, with the exception 

 of one which will be mentioned later on ; but it seems fitting to 

 mention a few of the late botanical workers of Australia, among 

 whom the first name which suggests itself to me is that of the 

 Rev. Dr. Woolls, who was a most energetic and enthusiastic 

 worker, was persistent in his endeavours to popularize botanical 

 studies, and always willing to advise and assist others. 



Among many minor publications, he was the author of three 

 or four small works, which have been found exceedingly useful. 

 One of the persons who worked with him, and was devoted to the 

 study of botany, and took the very varied and interesting flora of 

 the Kurrajong under her especial care, was Miss Louisa Atkin- 

 son (afterwards Mrs. Calvert), whose comparatively early death 

 was a great loss to the botanical world. Woolls died in 1892. 



Another botanist, who cannot be passed without notice, was 

 Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald, F.L.S., Deputy Surveyor-General, who 

 was so impressed with the Darwinian theory, that he commenced 

 " to study the family ( Ore hidece ) with more than ordinaiy zeal, in 

 the hope of adding, as it were, a single stone to the great pile con- 

 structed by the boldest speculator of the age." He accumulated 

 a large mass of coloured drawings, shewing not only the plants in 

 life size, but all parts of the flowers, in more than usual detail, 



