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naturalist to H.M.S. Herald, then starting under Cap- 

 tain Den ham for surveying work round the shores of 

 South America. He left that ship at Sydne}', and after 

 many years' wandering about the southern seas, ac- 

 counts of which he communicated from time to time to 

 Sydney newspapers, he died in 1867. He was a zealous 

 collector of plants and animals, but apparently cared 

 little for the study of his captures, either in life, in re- 

 lation to their surroundings, like Darwin, or for the 

 structure of their bodies, like Huxley. The somewhat 

 unpleasing nature of his regard for animals appears in 

 the following story which he himself tells : 



" While at dinner off Daniley Island near the Torres .Straits, 

 news was brought that Dzuiu was under the stern in a canoe, 

 shouting out loudly for Dzoka (MacGillivray's native name), 

 and, on going up I found that he had brought off the barit, 

 which after a deal of trouble I struck a bargain for and ob- 

 tained. It was a very fine specimen of Cuscus Maculatus, quite 

 tame and kept in a large cage of split bamboo. Dzum seemed 

 very unwilling to part with the animal, and repeatedly enjoined 

 me to take great care of it and feed it well, which to please him 

 I promised to do, although I valued it merely for its skin, and 

 was resolved to kill it for that purpose at my first convenience." 



On the other hand, MacGillivray paid great attention 

 to native languages, and collected vocabularies of some 

 value. To him was entrusted the task of writing an 

 account of the voyage, and it is from his rather dull 

 pages, brightened by illustrations from Huxley's 

 sketches, that the incidents of the voyage are taken. 

 The references to Huxley in the narrative are slight, 

 and seem to shew that no great intimacy existed be- 

 tween the two young men, the one a naturalist by pro- 

 fession, the other as yet a surgeon, but more devoted to 

 natural history than the naturalist. Such references 



