Kov., 1908.] 



THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. Ill 



Luehmann% R. T. Baker; Pullencea Luehmanni^ Maiden (this 

 journal, xxii., loo). 



Mallard ( ). 



Mrs. Captain Mallard, " who collected many interesting algae 

 in a short visit to Port Phillip." 



Polysiphonia Mallardue, Harv., in Harvey's " Nereis Aus- 

 tralis " and " Phycologia Australica," commemorates this 

 collector. 



Morton, WilliaxM Lockhart ( ). 



A Victorian resident for many years, who used to collect 

 largely for Mueller, and whose writings contain many references 

 to the indigenous vegetation. 



He wrote : — " Notes on a Recent Personal Visit to the 

 Unoccupied Northern District of Queensland " (with a map;, 

 (Trans. Phil. Inst. Vic, iv., i88) ; " Remarks on the Physical 

 Geography, Climat-e, &c., of the Regions lying between the 

 Rivers Lachlan and Darling" (Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., v., 128), 

 which contains references to a number of plants. " Suggestions 

 for the Introduction of Animals and Agricultural Seeds into 

 Victoria " {ib.^ v., 15). 



Mueller, Ferdinand von (1825-1896). 



Mueller was not a Victorian botanist, but an Australian one, 

 and a brief sketch of him will be found in 5. (See also Vict. Nat., 

 xxii., p. loi ; also xiv., p. 94; and 8 for details of his journeys 

 in Victoria). 



Ralph, Thomas Shearman (1813-1891). 



He was M.R.C.S., Eng., and an Associate Lin. Soc. Lond. 



He was an ardent microscopist and botanist, and mainly 

 devoted his attention to the exotic flora of the Melbourne 

 district. He resided for more than 20 years at Kew, and was for 

 many years president of the original Microscopical Society of 

 Victoria, afterwards a section of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Author of " Elementary Botany • for the Use of Beginners " 

 (Australian edition, IMelbourne, 1862) ; " On Some Remarkable 

 Changes which have Taken Place in the Flowers of the Plantago 

 major " (Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., vi., i) ; " On the Structure of the 

 Flower of the Mignonette '' (i6., 8) ; " On the Coccus affecting 

 the Orange" (i6., 10); "On Dry Rot-" (i6., 29); "On the 

 Structure of two Plants — Nitella and Chara " {ib.^ 26) ; " On the 

 Qicidium affecting the Senecio vulgaris, or Groundsel " ( Vict. 

 Nat., vi., 18). 



Rawlinson, Thomas E. ( ). 



Mr. Rawlinson, of Melbourne, collector of algae (2). 



I assume that this gentleman is identical with T. E. Rawlinson, 



