116 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXV. 



I am indebted for most of the above biographical details to his 

 daughter, Miss Whan. 



Wilson, Francis Robert Muter (i S3 2-1 903). 



A Presbyterian minister, long in charge of the church at Kew, 

 Melbourne. 



He devoted his attention to lichens, and his herbarium, 

 purchased by the New South Wales Government, is in the 

 National Herbarium, Sydney. 



In addition to Australian and New Hebrides lichens, he 

 personally collected at Matlock, Derbyshire, England, in August, 

 1884. 



Following is a list of his papers, for which I am indebted to 

 Mr. E. Cheel : — "Notes on a Few Victorian Lichens" {Vicf. 

 Nat., iv., ^7,, 1887) ; " Description of two New Lichens, and a 

 List of Additional Lichens New to Victoria (i6., v., 29, 1888) ; 

 " An Hour on a Coral Island, by a Student of Lichenology " 

 {ih., v., 141, 1888); " A Hunt for Lichens in East Gippsland, 

 Victoria" {ih., vi., 57, 1889); "An Additional List of Lichens 

 New to Victoria" {ih., vi., 60, 1889) ; " A Description of Forty- 

 one Victorian Lichens New to Science'" {ih., vi., 61, 1889); " An 

 Additional List of Lichens New to Victoria" {ih., vi., 76, 1889) ; 

 "Notes on Lichens in New South Wales" (Proc. Roy. Soc. Q., 

 vi., 85, 1889); "List of Lichens Found in New South Wales" 

 {ih., vi., 89, 1889) ; " Notes on a Remarkable Growth in Connec- 

 tion with a New Species of Sticta, with Description of both " [ih., 

 vii., 8, 1889) ; "Lichens from the Victorian Alps" {Vict. Nat., 

 vi., 178, 1890); " Lichens from Western Australia" {ih., vi., 180, 

 1890); "Australian Lichenology" (Trans. A. A. A. S., ii., 549, 

 1890) ; "A List of Queensland Lichens New to Science" (Bailey's 

 Botany Bulletin, No. 7, 28, 1891); "On Lichens Collected in 

 Victoria, Australia" {Journ. Linn. Soc. (Botany), xxviii., 353, 

 1891) ; " The Climate of P'.astern Tasmania as Indicated by its 

 Lichen Flora" (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 131, 1892); " Tas- 

 manian Lichens" {ih., 133, 1892) ; "The Lichens of Victoria, 

 Part i. " (Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. v., 2nd Series, 141, 1892) ; 

 " On Mr. Robert Hall's Collection of Lichens from Kerguelen 

 Island" {Vict. Nat., xv,, 41, 1898); " Lichenes Kerguelenses a 

 Roberto Hall, Anno 1898, prope Royal Sound in Kerguelen 

 insula lecti, et in Herbario National!, Melbourniensi, depositi " 

 {Mem. de VHerhier Boissier, No. 18, 87, 1900). 



Wilson, John Bracebridge (1828-1895). 



Born at Topcraft, Norfolk, the only son of the Rev. Edward 

 Wilson, rector of that place. Died 22nd October, 1895, at 

 Geelong. There is a brief obituary notice in this journal, xii., 81. 

 M.A., F.L.S. ; also member of the Kgl. Bayer. Botanische Gesell- 



