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included many singular and prominent species, and the genus Traversia 
(now reduced to Senecio) was named in his honour by Sir J. D. Hooker. 
He contributed many papers and addresses more or less relating to 
the botany of the colony to the Transactions of the New Zealand 
Institute, and was an earnest and assiduous supporter of botanical 
research up to the time of his death in 1903. 
The well-known geologist and explorer Sir Julius Haast first 
landed at Auckland in 1858. Meeting Dr. Hochstetter, the geologist 
to the “Novara” expedition, he travelled with him through the 
greater part of the interior of the North Island, subsequently visit- 
ing portions of the Nelson District. After Hochstetter’s departure, 
he accepted an engagement from the Nelson Provincial Government 
to explore the western and southern portions of the province, a work 
which occupied the greater portion of 1860, and during which he 
became familiar with the alpine vegetation of that part of the colony. 
In the following year he was appointed geologist for the Province 
of Canterbury, and at once commenced a series of expeditions into 
the then little-known Soutkern Alps for the purpose of studying their 
geology and physical structure, and of forming botanical and zoo- 
logical collections. The botanical results, with which we are alone 
concerned, proved to be most important, and cast a flood of light 
on the nature and distribution of the alpine flora of the colony. I 
quite concur with Sir J. D. Hooker’s opinion that it is difficult to 
imagine how Sir Julius Haast, with so many and such arduous duties 
as surveyor and geologist, could have personally effected so much for 
botany as he has done. Most of his botanical work was performed 
in the years between 1860 and 1870, but his interest in the subject 
remained undiminished until his death in 1887. His name is appro- 
priately commemorated in the genus Haastia, the three or four species 
of which rank amongst the most curious and remarkable in the flora. 
His collections were either forwarded to Kew or distributed among 
European museums, but few being retained in the colony. 
Dr. Lauder Lindsay, a well-known British botanist, visited New 
Zealand in the summer of 1861-62, and spent nearly four months 
in investigating the botany of eastern Otago, the district examined 
stretching from Dunedin to the mouth of the Clutha River, and inland 
to Tuapeka. The results of his journey were published in 1868 under 
the title of “Contributions to New Zealand Botany,” with four coloured 
plates. Dr. Lindsay gives the total number of species collected at 
612, of which 199 were phenogams and 413 cryptogams. The memoir 
contains much information of value, the critical notes in particular 
being copious and interesting. 
Mr. John Buchanan arrived in New Zealand prior to 1860, taking 
up his residence in Dunedin. He at once commenced an assiduous 
study of the native vegetation, making many important discoveries 
and collecting large suites of specimens. In 1862 he accepted the 
