232 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 



He obtained the Blane medal— a much coveted distinction for 

 naval officers. There is an account of him in the " Dictionary of 

 National Biography." 



Maxwell, G. See (5), p. 20. 



He lived at Albany, W.A., for many years. 



Mr. William Dunn, who knew him well, gave me the following 

 particulars concerning him when I was last at Albany. 



He lived and died at a cottage near Middleton Beach, on the 

 right hand on the last descent from Albany. The property belongs 

 to Mr. Affleck now. It used to be a reserve for the native school, 

 and the ground about it was cultivated by the natives. The 

 building itself was erected as a native school. 



He was buried in the Church of England Cemetery at Albany ; 

 there is no headstone. He was in very low water during the last 

 few years of his life, and died almost penniless. He used to sell 

 birds, insects, flowers, seeds, etc., to the passengers (chiefly those 

 of the P. & O. boats of the old days) who visited King George's 

 Sound. 



He was always a wanderer. He was a great bushman, and 

 many rich families possess good land discovered by him, who, 

 however, never did any good for himself. He lived in his cottage 

 or hut by himself, and Mr. Dimn and others used to keep an eye 

 on the old man, following him up whenever they missed him. He 

 suffered greatly from his eyes. 



There is no doubt that he performed yeoman service in bringing^ 

 under notice the vegetation of King George's Sound, the Stirling 

 Range, and the western part of the Bight. The seeds he collected 

 caused many public and private collections to be enriched, whose 

 owners probably never heard of him. 



Moquin-Tandon, H. B. A. 



See " Eloge du M. le Prolesseur Moquin-Tandon," prononce 

 par M. H. Baillon, a la seance de rentree de la Faculte de Medecine, 

 le 3 Novembre, 1864. 4to, pp. 34, with a full list of his works at 

 pp. 23-34. 



See also " Universite de Montpellier, L' Institut de Botanique 

 Notice," par Ch. Flahault (1890), p. 49. 



Oldfield, Augustus Frederick. See (4), p. 24, and (5), p. 22. 



He was author of a paper " On the Aborigines of Australia." 

 By Augustus (Frederick) Oldfield, Esq. (read February 9th, 1864), 

 pp. 215-298 (? Roy. Geog. Soc, but I cannot trace the paper). 



He botanised in the country about the Murchison River, West 

 Australia, in 1858-9. 



Mr. E. D. Oldfield has presented to me many of liis brother's 

 manuscripts, mostly written on paper bearing the water-mark of 

 1864. What he has written shows him to have been a competent 

 linguist, a mathematician, but especially a biologist in both 



