80 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.—SECTION D. 
some interesting notes by the late Mr. George Caley, by whom 
the collection was chiefly formed” (¢). The second contribution 
by Messrs. Gray and Macleay was also to some extent incomplete, 
inasmuch as in many cases the habitats were not given. 
Further, the zoologists were very much behind the botanists 
both in grasping the importance of geographical distribution 
and in authenticating the history of their specimens by giving 
the name of the collector. Zoologists of the standing of Prof. 
Westwood, Dr. J. E. Gray, John Gould, or Mr. Broderip, would 
describe a species without habitat or history. The commonly- 
accepted style was “ Hab. in Australia, Mus. Dom. A.,” but 
“ Hab. Mus. Dom. B.,” or even “ Hab. —— »’ would 
often serve quite as well. The explanation is, of course, that 
many of the zoologists studied specimens and were interested 
in naming specimens, rather than collections as representing 
the fauna. 7 
By gleaning as one may, I have been able to draw up the 
following provisional list of early collectors. It is probably 
very incomplete, but it will sufficiently illustrate the character 
of the early collecting. It is intended to be a list of Pre 
Victorian collectors, but for reasons already given, it is difficult 
to be sure that this is the case. 
British Collectors (with the exception of Dr. Sieber, an un- 
attached German private collector) :— 
Banks, Sir Joseph ) ee 
Solander, Dr. a 5 Banks Coll. 
Parkinson, Sydney ... Coll. (?)—Parkinson’s Journal, p. 211 
Cook, Capt. ee: ... Lever Mus.; Brit. Mus.—Donovan, Nat. Rep., 
ii., pl. xvi. (text, &c.); pl. ev. (text) 
Bailey, W. . Donovan Coil. (insects)— Ins. New Holl., p. iv. 
Phillip, Capt., Governor Received and sent specimens to England 
White, Surgeon-General Lever Mus. (birds); John Hunter Mus.; Brit. 
Mus.; Francillon Coll.; T. Wilson Coll. 
Considen, Dr. Dennis ... Banks Coll.—Hist. Rec. 1., Pt. 2, p. 220 
Bane Or. ... ae ... John Hunter Coll.— Phil. Trans., lxxxv., 1795 
(Abridged Ed., xvii., p. 542) 
Bass, Dr. ... ... Bewick Coll. (wombat, afterwards in New- 
castle Mus.)—Zool. Journ., iii., p. 478 
Hunter, Capt., Governor Nowell Coll. (mollusea)—Hunter’s Journ., p. 
581 and plates 
Mrewities. VV. , ... ... Dru Drury, Marsham, Macleay Colls.—Me- 
moir of Dru Drury, Jardine’s Nat. 
Library, Vol. xiii., p. 46 
Caley, George ... ... Linn. Soc. Coll.—Trans. Linn. Soc., xii., p. 587 
Brown, Robert ... ... Linn. Soe. Coll. (birds)—Trans. Linn. Soc., 
Xii., p. 598 
Westall, W. a ... Linn. Soe. Coll. (per A. B. Lambert)—Trans. 
Linn. Soc., x., p. 413 
Huey, A. ... a ... Coll. (?)—Leach, Zool. Mise.,i., pp. 12, 17, 94 
Tobin, —... as ... Coll. (?)—Donovan, Nat. Rep., ii., pl. lxvi. 
(text) 
Paterson, Colonel ... Co-operated with Péron 
(e) Gould’s Introduction to the “‘ Birds of Australia,’’ preface, p. 1. 
