396 records of the australian museum. 



Appendix. 



Addifiiiiix ami Correct ion ^^ to First Part. 



Dr. J. LHOTSKY (p. 71)— He was an expatriated Pole, aud "had a 

 cabinet in Elizabetli Street which was mucli admired for its scientific 

 arrangement." From the " Australian Alps" he brought some auriferous 

 sand. Mr. John Benson Martin " was one of the few who attended at 

 Dick's, the silver-smith, to witness its redaction, and saw the fiist button 

 of Australian gold turned out of its crucible-*^^" From this it 'would 

 appear that Lhotsky's discovery antedated that of his illustrious country- 

 man, Stx'zelecki. He was referred to in the " Sj'dney Gazette "'-®'' as a 

 candidate for Holmes' place as Colonial Zoologist. He all but anticipated 

 Strzelecki in the latter's exploration of Mt. Kosciusko, for in a letter to 

 the Editor of the " Sydney Gazette "-^' from Jirabombra, on Limestone 

 Plains, dated 5th April, 1834, he wrote : — 



" Visiting many of the stations scattered about the interesting and important 

 downs of Menero, I crossed the Snowy River, and brought my cart as 



far as Mutong, situated about 37'' S.L., and 148° E.L and 



entered by Westall's Opening the very heart of the Australian Alps." 



The position of this Mutong (which I cannot tind on any map) from 

 the latitude and longitude given, must be in Victoria, at some distance to 

 the south of Mt. Kosciusko. He goes on to say : — 



" The 5th of March, at 8 a.m., I was on the top of Mt. William, the absolute 

 altitude of which is, according to the preliminary calculations I was able 

 to make at the time, from 5 to 7,000 feet, and therefore by far the highest 

 point ever reached by any traveller on the Australian Continent." 



In the " Sydney Gazette " of 7th and 9th February, 1833^88, are 

 advertisements of the approaching sale of his collections : — 



" 8,000 specimens of plants, many belonging to families seldom attended to 

 by tlie botanist, together with a variety of woods, gums, classified rocks 

 and other minerals, insects, etc., etc.," [or] "eight thousand specimens of 

 Plants, Insects, Zoophytes, Minerals, Tympannm Bones of a Whale, Brazilian 

 Snakes, Mosses, specimens of the various Woods of the Colony, Lizards, 

 Fishes, and other Ctiriosities." 



Dr. Lhotsky delivered lectures at Hart's Buildings, Pitt Street, on 

 Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology, in 1833, under vice-regal patroTiage-*'^, 

 In a sub-leader of the " Sydney Gazette," 18th June, 1833"*^\ entitled 

 " Colonial Museum," Lhotsky was advocated as the one to fill the post 

 rendered vacant by the retirement of William Holmes (p. 75), who died 



•J85 "Reminiscences," by J.B.M. [John Benson Martin] being a reprint from 

 the Camden Times for 1883 (1884), p. 35. 



-"<fi Sydney Gazette, xxxiii.. No. 2534, 26th March, 1835. 



•287 Sydney Gazette, xxxii., No. 2427, April l.jth. 1834. 



■!88 Sydney Gazette, xxxi., No. 2243. 7th February, 1833, No. 2244, 9th February. 



■itfl Sydney Gazette, xxxi.. No. 2260, 19th March, 1833; t(?., xxxi., No. 2270, 

 11th April, 1833; id., xxxi.. No. 2273, 18th April, 1833. 



•-'»" Sydney Gazette, xxxi., No. 2298, 18th June, 1833. 



