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Mr. Robertson was an ardent cultivator of plants. Mr. Moodie 

 says his first care at ^Vando A'^ale was to form a garden. 



These documents were presented to me by Mr. Moodie. 



I am much indebted to Mr. J. Clancy, shire secretary of the 

 Shire of Glenelg, Casterton ; Airs. M'Conochie, of Hurstville, 

 Sydney, whose husband's brother-in-law Mr. Robertson was ; but 

 especially to Mr. William ^Moodie, of Mona Vale, Coleraine, a 

 nephew. 



He is commemorated by lianunculus Eoherfsoni, Benth., and 

 Calochihis Rohertsoni^ Benth. 



Sullivan, D. ( -1895). 



He died 2nd June, 1895, ^^ Moyston, near Ararat, Victoria, 

 where for 27 years he had been in charge of the local State 

 school. 



An obituary notice is to be found in vol. xii., p. 36, of this 

 journal. 



Following is a list of his papers, so far as I can ascertain 

 them: — "On the Victorian Ranunculace^e " (abstract), {Vict. 

 Nat.., i., 19) ; " The Epacridacece of the Grampians '' {ih., ii., 23) ; 

 " Native Plants of the Grampians and Vicinity " (six papers in 

 vol. -ii. and four papers in vol. iii.); " Droseracese — Sundews " 

 (ii., 202); "Victorian Leguminosse" (Wing's Southern Science 

 Record, ii., 249, 275); "Mosses of Victoria, with brief 

 Notes" (i6., iv., 106). 



He is commemorated by Caleya SuUivani, F. v. M., and 

 Dicranum SuUivani, C. M. (a moss). 



SwAiNSON, Willia:^! (1789-1855). 



Born at Liverpool, 8ih October, 1789; died at Fern Grove, 

 New Zealand, 7th December, 1855. Zoologist. F.L.&., 1816 ; 

 F.R.S., 1820. "Instructions for Collecting" (1808); "Natur- 

 alist's Guide" (1822). Studied Iris, Sweet, "Flower Garden," 

 2nd series, iii., 254. "Botanical Report on Victoria" (1853); 

 " Greek Plants in Herb. Liverpool Bot. Gardens" (Pritzel, 309 ; 

 Jackson, 218 ; Roy. Soc. Catalogue, viii., 893 ; Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 1855-6, xlix. ; Naturalist, iv., 397 (1839)). Water colour por- 

 trait by Harrison at Kew. 



The above from 6. See also 7, where it is said that his death 

 took place on the 6th December, at the Hutt, Wellington, N.Z. 

 See his obituarv notice by Prof. Thos. Bell in Proc. Linn. Soc , 

 1856. 



There are two zoological papers by him in Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Tas. for 1855. 



In my Presidential Address before the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales (P.L.S. N.S.W., xxvi., 796) will be found an account 

 of Swainson's extraordinary " Victorian Botanical Report," the 



