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sible here to give even a list of his scientific publications. Besides 

 104 papers registered in this Society's * Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers,' he produced many works of exceptional value. Amongst 

 them the most notable are the ' Fragmenta Phytographise Australia^' 

 begun in 1858 and concluded in 1882, comprised in twelve 

 volumes, a work teeming with critical observations on Australian 

 plants which have been embodied by Bentham in the ' Flora 

 Australiensis ' ; the 'Eucalyptographia,' a revision of the Gum-trees 

 of Australia, with 129 illustrative plates ; the ' Iconography of 

 Australian Salsolaceous Plants,' with 90 plates ; the i AcaciaB and 

 their Allies,' with 130 plates ; the ' Myoporineoe,' with 74 ; and the 

 ' Plants of Victoria,' a fragment, with 90. The descriptive portions 

 of these works leave nothing to be desired from a scientific point of 

 view, and the plates, all in quarto, abounding in anatomical analyses, 

 and executed altogether in the Colony, rival the best of those ot 

 European botanical works. In 1882 he published his ' Census of 

 Australian Plants,' in which the ranges of the species in the several 

 Colonies are given, thus initiating a botanical geography of the 

 continent. A second edition appeared in 1889. 



From his first years in Australia, Mueller had entertained the 

 ambition of writing a Flora of that continent, and when the several 

 Colonial Governments acceded to the representations of Sir W. 

 Hooker that such a work should be undertaken, and had voted the 

 supplies for its execution, the name of Mueller was naturally the first 

 to be suggested as author. And he no doubt would have been selected 

 but for the fact that without constant access to the Australian 

 collections in the British Museum and at Kew it could not be accom- 

 plished. Mueller at once grasped the situation, and, hearing that 

 Bentham had been selected as author, he generously offered the use of 

 the whole of his materials, including that of his immense herbarium, 

 which he transmitted, by instalments, to Kew for the purpose. This 

 great work, commenced in 1863, was concluded in 1878, Mueller 

 loyally aiding by correspondence from beginning to end. Happily 

 his collections were returned to him without the loss of a specimen. 



Of Mueller's works in economic botany the most important is 

 the ' Select Extra-tropical Plants, suitable for Industrial Culture or 

 Naturalisation in Australia.' This work is remarkable as a monu- 

 ment of botanical erudition, and, as an economic guide, it is unique of 

 its kind. It passed through many editions in the colony, has been 

 translated into four European languages, and been reprinted in thu 

 United States and in India. Besides being the means of introducing 

 many new cultures into Australia, Mueller's activity in sending seeds of 

 Australian plants, especially trees, all over the world, was phenomenal ; 

 and to him South Europe, Algeria, India, South and West Africa, 

 California, and South America, are greatly indebted for the groves of 



