Here, without date, may be noticed that over a long series of 

 jears great service was rendered to botany by collections made or 

 caused to be made by Sir Wm. McArthur, Sir Geo. and The Hon. 

 W. S. Macleay, and Dr. Geo. Bennett. The names of these men 

 are handed down to prosperity in the nomenclature of the following 

 plants : — Ci/athed Macarthurii, F.v.M., a noble fern-tree of Lord 

 Howe's Island; CallitriH Maeleai/ana, F.v.M., a tall graceful 

 pine ; and Eupouiatui Bennettii, F.v.M., one of the most curious 

 and beautiful of the small shrubs met with in our river scrubs. 



1854. — About this time tbe learned Dublin professor of 

 botany. Dr. W. Harvey, visited Australia in quest of Algae, on 

 the plants of which he was one of the greatest European 

 authorities. He made collections at King George's Sound, 

 Swan River, Cape Riche, Victoria, Tasmania, and N. S. Wales. 

 He also persuaded several residents to continue the Avork of 

 collecting these most delicate and lovely forms of vegetable life, 

 the result of which was the production of his beautifully 

 illustrated work in five volumes, the " Phycologia Australica." 

 Dr. Harvey's name is given by Baron Mueller to a Menisper- 

 maceous plant, Sarcopetalum Hdrreijanum. In the work above 

 quoted we find that Dr. Harvey has named several sea-weeds 

 after persons from whom he received specimens. Thus, we have 

 the genus Cliftonin, after G. Clifton, R.N., of Fremantle ; (Jurdiea, 

 after Dr. Curdie of Geelong ; Pdm/n Feredaytr, after Mrs. Fereday, 

 Georgetown, &c., ka. 



1847. — This must, for all time, be looked upon as the great 

 ^poch of Australian botany, for in this year Baron Ferd. von 

 Mueller, K.C.M.G., the Government Botanist of Victoria, arrived 

 in Australia. His love of the science, combined with some botanic 

 training in Europe, caused him soon after landing on our soil to 

 turn his attention to the indigenous vegetation, and it is greatly 

 due to his zeal in the cause, and indefatigable labour, that the 

 way of the botanist at the present time is so plain and easy 



The large herbarmm he prepared for Victoria furnished the 

 greater part of the material from which the immortal George 

 Bentham published his great and glorious work, " The Flora 

 Australiensis." It may be safely stated of this publication that 

 no similar work in the English language, either before or after, 



