168 president's address — section d. 



Sturtii, Hook. : Cassia Sturtii, R. Br. ; Crotalaria Sturtii, R. Br. (?) ; 

 Phyllota Sturtii, Benth. ; Solanum Sturtianum, F. v. M. ; Eremophila 

 Sturtii, Br. ; Grevillea Sturtii, Br. = G. juncifnli;. Hook. 



Eyre. — " Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Aus- 

 tralia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 

 1840-1." By Edward John Eyre, 2 vols., London, 1845. 



This gives an account of Eyre's marvellous journey. It valuably 

 supplements on land Flinders' s observations on the coast from ship- 

 board. 



Eyre gives useful notes in regard to the vegetation of the country 

 through which he passed, but, as regards details of the species col- 

 lected, all his earlier specimens were lost after they had been sent to 

 Adelaide. " This loss has been irreparable." (Preface, p., viii.) 



Hooker (y) says this journey " proved the utter sterility of the 

 waterless coast which he traversed. Between the meridians of Streaky 

 Bay and Lucky Bay there appears to be scarcely any vegetation at all, 

 except on the outlying islands, on some of which Brown had botanised 

 when on Flinders' s voyage, and on which he appears to have found very 

 little. At the meridian of 118° again the peculiar vegetation of south- 

 western Australia commences." 



Eyre was born in England in 1815, and died 1901. He arrived 

 in Sydney in 1833, and early became an explorer. His connection with 

 South AustraUa began in 1840. His journey along the coast from 

 South Australia to King George's Sound is one of the most remarkable 

 feats of pluck and endurance in the whole record of Australian ex- 

 ploration. Pluchea Eijrea, F. v. M., and Pimelea Eyreii are named after 

 him. 



For biographical details see " Mennell " (z), p. 152, and Mueller, 

 Trans. Phil. Soc. (Vic), IL, 154. He was awarded the Clarke Memorial 

 Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, see vol. XXXV., 

 pp. xviii., xxxviii., xlii., xliv. 



In the Library of the Royal Gardens at Kew the following MS. 

 volumes are to be found : — 



(a) South Australia : Botanical exploration (1854-83). Various 

 papers, reports, and correspondence. (Adelaide, &c., 

 1854-83, fol.) 

 (ft) Northern Territory, 1869-90. Printed reports, with occa- 

 sional MS. (Adelaide, 1869-90, fol.) 



Mueller. — Mueller, Ferdinand von. I have no intention of 

 giving an adequate biographical notice of Mueller at this place, but 

 I may remind you that for the first four years of his residence in Aus- 

 tralia he was a South Australian. He arrived in Adelaide late in 1847, 

 and left South Australia in 1852, to fill the newly-created post of Govern- 



(y) " Inti-od. Essay Fl. Tas." 



(z) " The Dictionary of Australasian Biography," by Philip Mennell. London : 



Hutchinson & Co., 1892. 



