president's address — SECTION D. 165 



This would appear to be the limit of the discoveries of the French 

 at this time, for their Cape Boufflers had previously been named Cape 

 Banks (g) bv Lieutenant James Grant (h), of the Ladi/ Nelson, on 

 December 3rd, 1800. He also surveyed the remainder of the South 

 Australian coast going east. Cape Northumberland was named by 

 him, and also Mounts Schanck and Gambler. 



I cannot find that any botanical specimens were collected by Brown 

 or others on Flinders' s expedition on the South Australian coast subse- 

 quent to Flinders's meeting with Baudin. The plants of Baudin's 

 expedition are referred to at page 166. I cannot find that Grant col- 

 lected on the South Australian coast at all. 



Robert Brown, in his rough sketch of the stopping-places {i), 

 makes but a cursory allusion to what is now the South Australian 

 coast " . . . . and the remaining parts of the south coast (j), on 

 five distant points of which we landed, as well as on seven of its adjacent 

 islands, were still more barren, altogether producing only 200 addi- 

 tional species. The smallness of this number is to be accounted for, 

 partly, no doubt, from the less favorable season in which this part of 

 the coast was examined ; but it appeared to depend also in a consider- 

 able degree on its greater sterility, and especially that of its islands." 



Brown's plants were, of course, mainly described in his 

 " Prodromus." 



Following are some of Brown's stopping-places (k), on what is 

 now South Australia :— Bay iii. (1) ; Fowler's Bay, a few hours ; 

 Memory Cove (m), three days ; Bay x., Port Lincoln, seven days ; 

 Inlet xii., an anchorage on Kangaroo Island (n), three days ; Inlet 

 xiv., Gulf of St. Vincent, a few hours ; Kangaroo Island (o), five days. 



The botanist of Baudin's Expedition of 1802 was Leschenault 

 de la Tour (p), Riedle was head gardener, and Sautier and Guichenot 



(g) Called " West Cape Banks " by Flinders to prevent confusion with the Cape 



Banks (Botany Bay) of Cook. 

 (h) See Grant, " The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's 

 vessel the Lady Nelson, during the years 1800-2, to New South Wales . . . 

 Soil, Natural Productions, &c.," London, C. Roworth, 1803. Demy 4to. pp. 195. 

 (i) Appendix to Flinders's voj'age. Vol. II., p. 534. 

 (j) He probably includes part of Victoria. 

 {k) Brown quotes a number of his collecting places. Hist. Rec. of N.S.W., Vol. IV., 



p. 778. 

 {I) There is a bay i., which is King George's Sound (see Hist. Rec, Vol. V., 

 p. 181), but there is a bay i., which is apparently Lucky Bay. (Hist. Rec, 

 Vol. IV., pp. 748 and 750.) 



(m) See No. 9, Hist. Rec, Vol. IV., p. 751. 

 (n) Hist. Rec, Vol. IV., p. 778. But perhaps Spencer's Gulf— Hist. Rec, Vol. IV., 



p. 751. 

 (o) " On March 22nd and 23rd, 1802, Brown was on shore at Kangaroo Head. 

 April 2-5, 1802, on shore at Kangaroo Head ; boat excursion to American 

 River and Pelican Lagoon ; ascended Prospect Hill, situated on the isthmus 

 connecting Dudley Peninsula with the main mass of the island. The collec- 

 tion was derived almost entirely from the littoral tracts, and he could not 

 have seen the characteristic inland flora." (Tate, Proc Roy. Soc S.A., 

 Vol. VI., p. 131, 1882-3.) 



(p) Infra p. 175. 



