270 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
ployed in preparing for the press his Observations on the 
Botany of New Zealand, published in the Companion to the 
Botanical Magazine and the Annals of Natural History, 
entitled, Flore Insularum Nove Zelandie Precursor; and in 
distributing, among the botanists of this country and the con- 
tinent, the duplicate specimens of his extensive and valuable 
herbarium. 
He engaged his passage to Sydney on board the (male) con- 
vict ship, Norfolk, Captain Gatenby, and joined that vessel 
at Spithead, the latter end of October, anticipating a quick 
passage, and as full of enthusiasm as when he left the same 
port, two-and-twenty years before. Ina letter, dated Spit- 
head, the 28th of October, he says :—‘ Here we are, still, 
and likely to continue at anchor another day; for although 
the captain reached us from town last night, he brought 
down with him no orders for sailing from the Transport de- 
partment, which it appears are necessary to be received, ere 
we dare, so to speak, to lift the anchor. Moreover, the wind 
has been, hitherto, more or less adverse for getting down 
channel; but, as saith the adage, “Tis indeed an ill wind 
that blows nobody good!’ This prolonged stay has afforded 
me time to overhaul my cabin baggage, which is so conside- 
rable, as you yourself saw; to stow all properly, and cleat 
and lash all my boxes, trunks, and packages sufficiently for 
sea, all which being now absolutely effected, I find I have 
as much room as I want to turn about in, and lift the leaf 
of my very convenient table, at which I hope to write and 
read much during the passage, which, Capt. Gatenby declares 
in positive terms, shall notexceed a hundred days ! Regarding 
my messmates, I may, I think, say with great truth that I 
have, since Monday last, seen enough of them ali to justify 
the anticipation of a very agreeable cabin passage, out to that 
country on the Bogan River, fell into the hands of one of the native tribes, 
by whom he was cui killed, about the 25th of April, 1835, in 
the 42nd year of his ag 
“This tablet is Soe? as a lasting and affectionate tribute to his 
memory, by Allan, his only brother." 
