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show that Anderson was as proficient in botany as in zoology ; 

 the names he bestowed upon new genera and species and their 

 explanations prove him to have been versed in Greek as well as in 

 Latin. He seems to have been well acquainted with the botanical 

 literature of the period, for, so far as they have been identified, 

 the plants which he indicated as " genera nova " generally merited 

 that definition. It does not seem desirable to cite names which 

 have not been published, but some of them have found their way 

 into print, and the history of these may be given. 



The first writer to call attention to Anderson's plants, apart 

 from Dryander's reference to his MSS. in Bibl. Banks., was 

 Eobert Brown, in his dedication of Andersonia already quoted. 

 The names there cited have escaped the notice of the Index 

 Keioensis ; this quotes three out of the four from later p-i Plica- 

 tions which themselves doubtless followed Brown, a; m's 

 MSS. can hardly have been consulted by their compixu^:=. -l;ic xour 

 — Aromadendnmi, Collema, Eu2)hocarpiis, and Ravisaia (= respect- 

 ively Eucalyptus L'Herit., Goodeyiia om., Correa Sm., and 

 Bauera Banks ex Andr.) — should all stand in Ind. Kew. as 

 "R.Br. Prodr. 553," thus superseding the later references ; and 

 " W." should be prefixed to the author's name. It will be noted 

 that in each case Anderson's names anticipated those now adopted. 

 Aromadendron is identified by Dryander with Eucalyptus obliqua, 

 the species which was the type of L'Heritier's genus (Sert. Angl. 

 t. 20, p. 18), founded on material from Anderson and Nelson. 

 Specimens from the latter are in Herb. Banks., and we have a 

 specimen with Anderson's label from Robert Brown's herbarium, 

 acquired later (1876). Of the name Anderso-i says : " Aromaden- 

 dron eum vocavi, quia folia fructusimo (partes omnes) aroma- 

 tici sunt. . . . Habitat in Terra Diemens, cum pars magnus 

 sylvarum format. Folia, flores, fructus, cortex ramulorumque, 

 sapor aromaticus subcalidua (Mentha piperitis similis) gaudent. 

 Truncus etiam resina (s. gumma) rubella astringens reddit." Of 

 Bamsaia Anderson says : "I call'd it Bamsaia in honour of 

 Dr. Ramsay, Professor of Natural History in the University of 

 Edinburgh " ; this suggests that Anderson was an alumnus of 

 that University. He also dedicated a genus to Cook — "aCom- 

 mendatorio nostro. Navigator et Mathematicus expertus, quia sub 

 navigationibus ejus Genera multa nova Plantarum ad Angliam 

 lati fuerunt." 



Two more of Anderson's genera are taken up by J. D. Hooker 

 in Flora Antarctica ii (1845) : Sphcerula — which had already been 

 named A7icistrum inerme by Dryander in Herb. Banks, as quoted 

 by Hooker — is placed under Accena ajfinis Hook f. (p. 268) ; of this 

 Dryander has a full description in the Solander MSS. founded 

 on specimens from " Anderson " : I am inclined to think that this 

 is a slip for Nelson, who collected on the same voyage, and to 

 whose specimens the name is applied in Herb. Banks. The other is 

 Pringlea (p. 238), which is universally maintained. This Anderson 

 first named Diaphoranthus, but later substituted '' Pringlia {sic), 

 from Sir John Pringle, Physician to the Queen and President of 



