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before six months more had passed he too was in his grave. 

 Landing in Sydney at the age of seventeen, he became, in 1832, 

 an assistant master at King's School, Parramatta, and later on 

 classical master at Sydney College. In 1878, after conducting a 

 private school at Parramatta, he was admitted to holy orders in 

 the Church of England. Taking up the study of natural science 

 with ardour, he contributed many papers on natural science to 

 newspapers and science journals. His work on the " Plants of 

 Parramatta," published by the University of Gottingen in Ger- 

 many, won him the degrees of Master of Liberal Arts and Doctor 

 of Philosophy (Ph.D.). His " Plants of New South Wales" was 

 until quite recently the only substitute for a flora of that colony 

 available for botanical students. It is interesting to Queens- 

 landers to know that his last labour was a review, contributed 

 to the Sydney Mail, of Mr. F. M. Bailey's twentieth and twenty- 

 first bulletins. 



The journals of the scientific societies of New South Wales 

 have added little to the study of botany during the past year, 

 the only paper of importance in the proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society being notes by Dr. WooUs on some plants collected by 

 Mr. H. W'lllis at King George's Sound. In Victoria, botanical 

 progress is mainly the outcome of Baron von Mueller's 

 genius and energy, which remain undiminished in spite of ad- 

 vancing years. The Baron was a feUow-worker with Bentham 

 m the production of that model work the " Flora Australiensis," 

 his collections formed the largest quota of the required material, 

 and he brought to the Hterary partnership that practical know- 

 ledge which only years of travel with definite scientific aims, and 

 of study acquired during such travel, could possibly supply. For 

 many years Colonial Botanist of Victoria, the Baron has pub- 

 lished in rapid succession a series of volumes on Australian 

 botany which have gained him a world-wide reputation. In his 

 " Fragmenta Phytographiae Australite" he has given descriptions 

 of new plants from all parts of the continent, as they from time 

 to time came to hand. His " Census of Australian Plants" is 

 the acknowledged authority — appearance in which places new 

 species, no matter by whom named, beyond cavil or challenge. 

 His monographs on the Eucal^-pts, Acacias, Myoporinefe, and 



