president's address — SECTION D. 197 



The author says — 



" At Mr. Laudsboroueh's request I have extended this enumeration 

 so far as to include all the plants observed by myself on the south-west, 

 south, and south-east territories of the Gulf. For this purpose the 

 corresponding notes were extracted from the yet unpublished diaries, 

 kept by myself when accompanying Mr. Aug. Gregory in his North 

 Australian Expedition during the years 1855 and 1856." 



Mr. Henne has been good enough to give me the following par- 

 ticulars of his movements : — Sailed from Melbourne August 4th, 186J, 

 in the colonial warship Victoria, Captain Norman. On September 

 6th arrived at the Sir Charles Hardy Islands. lianded at Bountiful 

 Island September 27th ; this island is merely a sandy patch, with very 

 little vegetation. Established the main depot at Sweers Island, south 

 of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Went in the tender Firefly to where the 

 Albert River received a branch of the Norman River. Right up to 

 here the country near the river was swampy and the shores densel}'' 

 overgrown with mangroves. A few miles inland a freshwater lagoon 

 was found, and the vegetation improved. Mr. Henne collected all 

 along the river and up country, not only herbarium specimens, but 

 also fruits and timbers of about 30 kinds of trees. He handed to 

 Mueller six cases of specimens exclusive of the timbers. 



One of his excursions was made in a ship's boat to the sources of 

 the Albert River, where he found a tree marked by Gregory in 1856. 

 He collected on Sweers Island. Arrived in Melbourne March 31st, 

 1862. 



Ficus Henneana, Miquel, from Booby Island, Torres Straits, was 

 named after him. 



On his return he joined the staff of the Melbourne Herbarium, 

 under Mueller, as assistant, with his friend Wilhelmi, but resigned in 

 1864 to follow a mercantile career. 



Tenison- Woods. — " North Austraha : Its Physical Geography 

 and Natural History." Julian E. Tenison- Woods (8vo., pp. 46. Govern- 

 ment Printer, Adelaide, 1864). 



Chapter VIII., pp. 38-48, is taken up with a sketch of the botany. 



The following are comparatively recent botanical papers on the 

 Northern Territory : — 



1. At Proc. R.S., S.A., III., pp. 172-3, a list of plants collected by 

 Mr. Chandler, at Barrow's and Tennant's creeks. Barrow's Creek, 

 north of Alice Springs, and Tennant's Creek further north, may be 

 looked upon as intermediate localities as between South Australia and 

 the Northern Territory proper. 



2. " Record of hitherto Undescribed Plants from Arnhem's Land." 

 Mueller (Proc. R.S., N.S.W.. 1890. pp. 73-9, 128. 174). Abstracted 

 in Proc. R.S., S.A., XIII., 242. 



3. "Introduced Plants in the Northern Territory." M. Holtze 

 (Proc. R.S., S.A., XV., 1-4). 



