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This was justifiable under the circumstances, but inex- 

 pedient ; and an occurrence of this kind naturally added 

 to the local prejudice against him. Caley was a good 

 Collector. Numerous plants and seeds were sent to Kew. 

 He stayed at St. Vincent's till 1819, when he came home ; 

 and spent much of his retirement in Kew Gardens. 



Another botanist who went out to New South Wales 

 at Sir Joseph Banks's instance was George Suttor. He 

 appears to have gone purely as a settler in the country ; 

 taking with him a variety of fruit trees, and promising 

 to send home to Banks what new plants he could find. 

 He sailed in the Porpoise, in November, 1798. He turned 

 out a very able colonist, cultivated the vine, and was 

 doubtless the originator of the wine produce of Australia. 

 He visited England in 1842, became a F.L.S., and pub- 

 lished a paper on the Culture of the Vine and the Orange 

 in Australia. He died on his estate at Bathurst, in 1859. 



Suttor wrote a short life of Sir Joseph Banks, 1 marked 

 by the warmest sentiments of regard and esteem. 



1 London, 1855. 



