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occasions. By collecting in the Port Jackson region and to the north as 

 far as the Hunter River, Brown got another 1000 species. His visit to 

 Tasmania (Van Diemen's Island) yielded 700 species. Brown went there 

 with the first British settlers, expecting to stay not more than ten weeks, 

 as he explained in a letter of 12 December 1804 to Banks (Hist. Rec. 

 N. S. W. 5: 509), but lack of opportunity to return to Port Jackson 

 lengthened his visit to nine months. He spent January 1804 near the 

 mouth of the River Tamar, around George Town (Port Dalrymple), in 

 the north of the island, the rest of the time at and around Risdon Cove, 

 near Hobart, and along the River Derwent, in the south of the island. 

 Lacking a boat he could not travel to any great distance from the 

 settlement. 'My researches were consequently confined in great measure 

 to the nearest chain of mountains and the rivers which descend from 

 them. Table Mountain *** I ascended ten times and found it un- 

 commonly productive, most of the new species acquired in Van Die- 

 man's Land belonging to it\ Meanwhile Bauer went to Norfolk Island, 

 where in 1804 and 1805 he collected the plants listed in Endlicher's 

 Prodromm Florae NorfoJkicae (1833). They returned to England to- 

 gether aboard the repaired but still damp Investigator, reaching Liver- 

 pool on 13 October 1805 after 'a tedious and uncomfortable voyage of 

 nearly five months'. Having, in Brown's words, 'suffered very consi- 

 derably from the crazy state of one vessel and the wreck of another' 

 they thought themseves 'tolerably fortunate in being able to bring Home 

 about 3000 species' (Hist. Rec. N. S. W. 6 : 11). 



In his appendix (pp. 533 — 613) to Flinders's Voyage to Terra Austra- 

 lis, volume 2 (1814) Brown gave a summary of the circumstances in 

 which his collections were formed both during the Investigators voyage 

 and subsequently during his eighteen months in New South Wales and 

 Tasmania and he also indicated the other sources of material used in 

 preparing his Prodromus as follows: — 



The first part of New Holland examined in captain Flinders's voyage 

 was the South Coast, on various and distant points of which, and on 

 several of its adjacent islands we landed, in circumstances more or less 

 favourable for our researches. The survey of this coast took place from 

 West to East, and four first anchorage was in KingGeorgeThird's Sound 

 [1], in 35° S. lat. and 118° E. lon. In this port we remained for three 

 weeks, in the most favourable season for our pursuits; and our collec- 

 tions of plants made chiefly on its shores and a few miles into the 

 interior of the country, amount to nearly 500 species, exclusive of those 



