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In 1853 Captain Denham surveyed the Pacific Islands in H.M.S. 

 " Herald." He was accompanied by Mr. MacGillivray and a Botanical 

 collector, and sent some interesting collections from Lord Howe's 

 Island, between Australia and New Zealand, and from Dirk Hartog's 

 Island and Shark Bay. 



See the Lord Howe Island bibliography, by Maiden, in Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxiii., 119 (1898). 



Then we have : — 



Captain Denham has, fortunately for science, two naturalists on board 



H.M.S. " Herald," now employed surveying that group of islands in the South 



Pacific Ocean, of which those of Feejee may be considered the centre — Mr. 



MacGillivray and Mr. William Milne, assistant naturalist. These gentlemen 



have not been idle, as we can testify by the arrival of the collections of plants 



which they have formed at the several places they have touched at on their 



way to Sydney, and as is shown by the following extract from Mr. 



MacGillivray's latter addressed to us from that Colony, dated 23rd February, 



1853. 



* * * * * * * 



Milne has been actively employed collecting at all the places he has 

 visited, and improves much in his way of preparing specimens. (Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. V. 279 [1853].) 



In 1852, the British Admiralty determined to recommission H.M.S. 

 "Herald" (Captain Denliam, R.N.) for the purpose of surveying some of the 

 little known groups of islands in the South Polynesian Ocean. Mr. John 

 MacGillivray and Mr. William Milne were appointed to her as naturalists, the 

 latter as assistant to the former. No connected narrative of tiiis voyage has 

 been published, but a sketch of an excursion made (14th August to 24th 

 September, 1856) in Fiji has been described by Mr. Milne (Hooker's Journ. 

 Bot. ix., p. 106 [1857].) (Seemann's Fl. Vitiensis VII.) 



Both MacGillivray and Milne were excellent collectors. The former was a 

 man of great promise, but for some weighty reason he was dismissed the 

 service, and after returning to New South Wales and accepting engagements 

 there for exploring the flora and fauna of several Polynesian islands, he joined 

 some sandalwood traders and died, still a young man, 6th June, 1867. 

 (Seemann Fl. Vitiensis VII.) ; (Seem. Journ. Bot. 1867, 163.) 



Mr. MacGillivray's herbarium was given to Sir W. Hooker, and contains 

 several hundred species in excellent preservation. (2.) 



The following- MS. Catalogue at Kew refers to these : — 



" MacGillivray, John. Voyage of H.M.S. ' Rattlesnake. 

 Cat.ailogue of botanical specimens, collected in 1846-9. sm. 

 8vo." See also : 

 " MacGilli-^nray, John. Narrative of the voyage jof H.M.S. 

 ' ilattlesnake,' commanded by . . . Captain 0. Stanley 

 . . . 1846-50 ... to which is added . . . H B. Kennedy's 

 Expedition for the exploration of the Capje York Peninsula. 

 Loiulon, 1852. 2 vols. Svo." 



Seemann only took up MacGillivray's plants, of which there is 

 also a set in the British Museum. He did not touch Milne's plants. 



While in private employment he wrote : — " Some remarks on the 

 Sandalwood of the South Sea Islands." Read before the Horticultural 

 Improvement Society of N.S. Wales. (Svd. Mas. Sci. and Art., 11, 

 196.) 



He collected for many years for Mr. M. Guilfojde, of Double Bay, 

 Sydney. There is an account of MacGillivray imder the title of " A 

 Martyr to Science," by the Rev. P. C. Beaton, in "Good Words" for 

 1868, p. 425, with a portrait. 



