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Garden, visiting it frequently — " several times a week," says one 

 of my informants. He appointed the first three Curators — 

 Arthur, Dallachy, and Mueller. His interest was not merely of 

 the official kind ; he had a real knowledge of plants, exotic and 

 native ; some who know him personally agree on this. Mr. 

 John G. Robertson, writing to Sir William Hooker, at Kew, in 

 November, 1854, has a charmingly egotistic touch when he 

 remarks : — " With the exception of the late Mr. Robert Lawrence, 

 Mr. Ronald Gunn, and our much-respected ex-Governor, Mr. 

 Latrobe, I never met any individual resident who knew any- 

 thing more about Australian plants than myself." 



He is commemorated by Glycine Latrobeana, Benth. 



Layard ( ), " of Melbourne," collector of algce (2). 



LUEHMANN, JOHANN GeORG (1843-1904). 



He was born at Buxtende, near Hanover, Germany, and died 

 at Melbourne, iSth November, 1904. 



A short obituary notice will be found in this journal (xxi., 108). 



Luehmann was an excellent botanist, who entirely effaced 

 himself during the lifetime of Mueller, and after that botanist's 

 death began the publication of " ReliquDs Muellerianse," in the 

 first paper of which he modestly stated that he was but dealing 

 with specimens that had been accumulated by his distinguished 

 predecessor. The sentiment does honour to him, and is an 

 illustration of his innate modesty, but it is not generally known 

 that for 30 years before Mueller's death he was the latter's right- 

 hand man, and his services in the building up and critical 

 examination of the National Herbarium, Melbourne, were very 

 great. It would be impossible to write the history of that 

 herbarium without giving Luehmann very great credit. He knew 

 every handwriting on the labels, and there died with him a vast 

 amount of valuable information in regard to it, for he had a great 

 reluctance to put the results of his knowledge upon paper. 



Following is a list of his publications (he published nothing 

 during Mueller's lifetime) :—" Reliquise Muellerianse : Descrip- 

 tions of New Australian Plants in the Melbourne Herbarium " — 

 Vict. JS^at., xiii., Acacia T/jsoni, m; Acacia C'lUhhertsoni and 

 A. ijalustris {ib., 117); Eucalyptus torquata (ib., 147) ; Eucalyptus 

 corrugata {ib., 168). " Observations on Xei'otes sororia, F. v. M." 

 {ib., xiv., 147) ; " Description of a New Australian Labiate 

 Plant {Hemigenia Macphersoiii),'^ {ib., xv., 20) ; " Some Observa- 

 tions on Pre-Linnean Botanists " {ib., xv., 50) ; " Description of 

 a New Lobelia from W.A. {L. Toppii)," {ib., xvii., 169) = L. 

 gibbosa, Labill. ; " A Short Dichotomous Key to the Hitherto 

 Known Species of Eucalyptus " (Proc. A. A. A. S., vii., 523). 



The following species commemorate him : — Eugenia Luehmayini, 

 F. V. M. ; Eucalyptus Luehmanniana, F. v. M.; Casuariua 



