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and required the occupants of them to teach botany, zoology, and 

 geology. The fields of science have so broadened that it is impossible 

 for one man to do justice to three such vast subjects at the present da v. 

 Tate was a sound botanist ; I believe he was a good zoologist (especially 

 in conchology) ; he was a palseontologist and geologist also. 



Tate possessed the critical faculty in a very high degree ; he was 

 also gifted with the power of philosophic generalisation. For many 

 years he was incomparably the most distinguished botanist in South 

 Australia, and I hope tha.t one result of this paper will be to show the 

 depth and breadth of South Australia's indebtedness to the great 

 naturalist whose genial presence we no longer enjoy at these gatherings. 



He largely added to, by original research, the plants found in South 

 Australia. He purified records by means of his critical faculty which 

 led him to examine all things, while he consolidated the flora as lawyers 

 do the statutes of a country. In a word, if one requires accurate in- 

 formation in regard to the flora of South Australia, one turns to Tate 

 as a matter of course. Tate has an indelible memorial in his botanical 

 work in South Australia ; at the same time, it would be a graceful act 

 to commemorate him, say, by a complete edition of his works, a medal, 

 or mural tablet or statue. Although the memory of Tate can never 

 die so long as botany is studied in South Australia, the living may 

 honor themselves by doing honor to the memory of a brilliant Australian. 

 And may I remind you that the memorials to Australian scientific men 

 are very few. 



Mueller dedicated the genus Tatea to him, also Xanthorrhoea 

 Tateana. 



Waterhouse, F. G. — He was a zoologist and Curator of 

 the Adelaide Museum. 



" He was sent in 1861 by the South Australian Government to 

 search for insects and other zoological objects, and as a result of bye- 

 work, about a hundred species of plants were collected, which passed 

 into the hands of Baron F. von Mueller, by whom the novelties were 

 specially dealt with in vol. IV. of his Fragmenta Phytogra'phiw. Five 

 species new to science were the chief results of Mr. Waterhouse's labors, 

 and 83 species-names added to the list of the local flora. Mr. Water- 

 house had his headquarters on the Cygnet River, at a few miles from 

 Kingscote, and spent there the spring and summer months. His 

 collection of plants was gathered chiefly from the wooded banks of the 

 river and the heath-ground adjacent thereto." (Tate in Proc. R.S., 

 S.A., VI. (1882-3), p. 133). 



See also his work, " Features and Productions of Country on 

 Stuart's Track Across Australia. Report on Fauna and Flora, Natural 

 History, and Physical Features of Australia on the line of J. McDouall 

 Stuart's Route Across that Continent from the South to the North 

 Coast." (South Australian Parhamentary Paper No. 125 of 1863.) 



The following species commemorates his name : — Spyridium 

 Waterhousii, Muell. = Stenanthenium Waterhousii, Benth. 



