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compiled. Anybody who knows Australian life and the 

 flora can see that the letters as published are written by a person 

 who has not seen Australia. The author of the book, Charitas 

 Bischoff, is probably her daughter Charitas Dietrich. She knew, 

 of course, the life of her mother, but she apparently did not preserve 

 all her letters, and more or less reproduced them from memory, 

 but the letters probably correctly show her movements in Australia. 

 She wrote letters to her daughter from Brisbane, August, 1863 ; 

 Rockhampton, April and October, 1864, February. 1866 ; Mackay, 

 November, 1867 ; Lake Elphinstone, March, 1868'; Mackay. Febru- 

 ary, 1869 ; Bowen, September, 1869 ; October, 1870 ; Melbourne, 

 April, 1871 (met Baron von Mueller) ; Tongatabu, February, 1871. 



She returned to Europe in May, 1873, and was met "by her 

 daughter Charitas at Hamburg. She had hoped to spend the rest 

 of her life with her daughter, but was disappointed to hear that 

 Charitas was engaged to a pastor (presumably Bischoff) on the 

 border of Denmark and Germany, and would soon marry. Amalie 

 Dietrich refused to live with her daughter and son-in-law. She 

 accepted a position in the Museum GodefYroy, and lived for 13 years 

 in the Museum. When the collections were transferred to the 

 Municipality of Hamburg a position was given to her in the 

 botanical museum of Hamburg, and she was paid by the muni- 

 cipality. The business of Godeffroy was converted into a com- 

 pany, " Die deutsche Han dels und Plantagen Gesellschaft" (about 

 1880, probably after the death of Caesar Godeffroy). The money 

 spent on science by the rich merchant as a hobby was not spent 

 by a company, and the Museum Godeffroy ceased to exist. 



She died in 1891, aged 69, when on a visit to her daughter in 

 Rendsburg, having caught a cold on the journey. 



The portrait of Amalie Dietrich is copied from the work in 

 question. 



Ferguson, W., took up the position of Superintendent or Curator 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, on 1st January, 1870, 

 and continued until 30th June, 1872. ' | I 



Interim arrangements for the control and management of the 

 Gardens, Domain and Government House Gardens were made and 

 continued until 1st July, 1873 (F. Pitcher). 



On that date Mueller and Luehmann were restricted to the 

 Department of the Government Botanist, while Mr. W. R. Guil- 

 foyle was appointed Director of the Botanic Gardens. 

 See Heyne, E. B. (below). 



Francis, George W. See (2), p. 174. 



There is a stone obehsk to his memory in the Adelaide Botanic 

 Gardens, with a gunmetal plate encircled with ivy and laurel, and 

 bearing this inscription : — 



" In remembrance of the late G. W. Francis, Esq., F.L.S., 

 F.H.S., first Director of this Garden, by whom it was planned and 

 laid out in the year 185.5." 



