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result of Governor Latrobe having appointed him to study and 

 report " on the timber of the colony, chiefly Eucalypti and 

 Casuarineae." He made 1,520 species or varieties of eucalypts, 

 201 pines, and 213 species of Casuarinete. Surely this is one of 

 the most remarkable of all Australian botanical documents ! The 

 genus Swainsona (Leguminosre) commemorates him. 



TiSDALL, Henrv Thomas (? 1 836-1 905). 



Born at Waterford, Ireland. Arrived in Melbourne in 1858. 

 He died 10th July, 1905, aged 69 years. Buried at Heidelberg 

 . Cemetery. There is an obituary notice in this journal, vol. xxii., 

 c^6. See also the Australasian for 22nd July, 1905. 



Following is a list of his papers : — *' Fungi of the Country East 

 of Mt. Baw Baw" {Vict. Nat., i., 169)— this is Part i. of the 

 succeeding paper ; " Fungi of North Gippsland," Part ii. {ih., ii.,- 

 106); "Victorian Agarics" {ih., iv., 203); "Fungi of the 

 Season " (v7)., vi., 107) ; " A Curious Fungus (Cordiceps), (ib., vi., 

 T19); "A Winter Journey in the Mountains" (ib., vi., 139); 

 Victorian Fungs New to Science " {ih., vii., 96) ; " On a Species 

 of Isaria " {ib., x., 90) ; "Notes on the Genus Calocera" (ib., x., 

 T27); "Symbiosis between Fungi and Phanerogams" (ib., x., 

 T15) ; " Under F.astern Baw Baw : a Botanical Trip in Gippsland 

 Mountains" (ib., xi., 93); "A Botanical Peeji into the Rocky 

 Pools of Sorrento and Queenscliff" (ib., xiv.. 7 (2), xiv., 86) ; 

 " Algoe of Kerguelen's Tand " (*6., xvi., 23); "Plants of Prey" 

 (ib., xv\., 107); "A Trip to Angelsea River" (ib., xvii., 24); 

 " Notes on the Native Bread (Polyporv.s Mylittce),'" (ib., xxi., 57) ; 

 " On the Fungi Growing in Mines " (Proc. Roy. Soc, Vict., xxiv., 

 41, 46) ; "Tlie Algte of Victoria" (Proc. A. A. A. S., vii., 493) ; 

 also author of a text-book, " Botany Notes," which I have not 

 seen. 



Walter, Carl (? 1831-1907). 



Born in Mecklenberg, (Termany ; died iith October, 1907. 

 See an obituary notice of him in this journal, xxiv., 110. He did 

 a vast amount of botanical collecting in Victoria and south-eastern 

 New South Wales during many years for Baron von Mueller, 

 securing many new species, and assisted in getting together the 

 collection of vegetable products in the Technological Museum, 

 Melbourne. He well deserves a place in a list of Victorian 

 botanists. He published l)ut little, and his papers include : — 

 " Records of Plants New to Victoria and New Districts for 

 Victorian Plants " ( Fict. Nat., xvi., 98) ; " A New Variety of an 

 Orchid (Diuris punctata, vnr. D'Altoni, Walter), (ib., xxiii., 240). 



Some of his records in later years are Hiulty, which T attribute 

 largely to his defective eyesight. 



Prosianthera Walteri, F. v. M., was named after him. 



