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have moat contributed to tlie herbarium are :' — Dr. H. Bkcklee, who first 

 collected for himself in the country to the back of Moreton Bay, and 

 afterwards for Melbourne in the jungle-forest about the Hastings, 

 Richmond; Macleay, and Clarence rivers, and, still more recently, be- 

 tween the Darling and the Barrier range, as botanist and surgeon to 

 Burke's unfortunate expedition; his specimens are remarkably good 

 and well selected. Mr. J. Dall^vchy, whose principal journey was one 

 to the Darlino: desert. Mr. G. Maxav]5LL, from whom there are nu^ 

 raerous species from W. Australia, chiefly from the southern districts. 

 Mr. C. Stuart, who collected in Tasmania, and afterwards more largely 

 in Xew England, in the neiglibourhood of Tenterfield. A considerable 

 set of the latter has also been presented to the Kew herbarium by Sir 

 Stuart Donaldson ; Mr. F. Wateruouse, who made large collec- 

 tions for the Government of S. Australia, chiefly in Kangaroo Island ; 

 and Mr. Augusttts Oldfield, an acute observer as well as an intelli- 



gent collector, who, besides the Tasmanian contributions mentioned in 

 Pr. Hooker's Flora, made large additions to tlieAVest Australian plants 

 previously known ; in the first instance from the neighbourhood of 

 Murchison river, and afterwards from the south-western districts. 

 Mr. Oldfield is now in this country, and has most generously offered the 



. use of his own Australian herbarium to the Kew Museum, as a contri- 

 bution towards the present Flora. 



4. Collections presented to Dr. Mueller by friends chiefly resident in 

 Australia. These, owing to the greater facilities for drying and pt*e- 

 serving enjoyed by stationary collectors, are usually the most satisfac- 

 tory to the working botanists. The first of them in importaince are 



those of Mr. C. Moore, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at 

 Sydney, and of Mr. W. Hill, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at 

 Brisbane; the former chiefly from the northern districts of JS^ew South 



Wal 



Amongst the 



. W. Allitt 



from Portland, of Miss Louisa Atkinson from the Blue Mountains, of 

 Dr, II. Behr (now in California) from South Australia, of Mu, E. 

 Bowman from Queensland, of Mr. J. J^eunst (unfortunately, from a 

 misreading of the labels, spelt Vernet in the first sheets of this volume) 

 from Ipswich, of Mr. A. Thozet from Queensland, of Mb. W. Vernon 

 from Sydney, of the Ret. W. Whan from Shipton, of Mr. C. AVii*- 

 HELMi from Port Lincoln, of the Eey^ S. E. AYoons from the Tattiara 

 country, and of Mr. W. Woolls from Paramatta. 



Besides the above-mentioned names and those enumerated in Pr- 



