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glottis diphylla; 9, Grevillea Banksii; 10, Brunonia sericea; 11, Tricoryne 

 elatior; 12-14, Doryanthes excelsa; 15, Sttjlidium calcaratum, S. pyg- 

 maeum, Levenhookia pusilla. Parts 1 and 2, containing plates 1 — 10, 

 were issued together, part 3 later. Apparently the edition was less than 

 50 copies. These plates are among the most beautiful illustrations of 

 Australian plants ever published. 



Brown also published in 1810 his celebrated paper 'On the Protea- 

 ceae of Jussieu' in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 15 — 226. This paper 

 was read to the Society on 17 January 1809; the titlepage of volume 10 

 is dated '1811'; part 1 (pp. 1 — 228) was, however, ready for delivery 

 to members of the Linnean Society in February 1810 (according to the 

 Society's Council Minutes) and was received by the Royal Society on 

 1 March 1810 (cf. PhiJ. Trans. 100: 321); thus it came out before the 

 Prodromus. The Royal Society received part 2 (pp. 229 — 415) on 

 7 November 1811 (cf. Phil. Trans. 102: 417); this contains Edward 

 Rudge's 'A description of several species of plants from New Holland' 

 (pp. 283 — 303) and Smith's 'An account of a nev/ genus of New Hol- 

 land plants named Brunonia' (pp. 365 — 370), which thus appeared after 

 the publication of Brunonia in the Prodromus. Meanwhile Richard An- 

 thony Salisbury had stolen a march upon Brown by publishing other 

 names for many of his plants in Joseph Knight's On the Cultivation 

 of the Plants belonging to the Natural Order of Proteeae (1809; the 

 preface and plate dated '1. August 1809'). Knight had formerly been 

 head gardener to George Hibbert, who, according to Brown, 'for many 

 years possessed the most extensive collection of living Proteas that has 

 ever been formed'. 



That Salisbury wrote most of the Proteeae is evident from Knight's 

 reference in his preface to 'R. A. Salisbury, Esq., whose manuscripts 

 have been found so useful in every sheet' and indeed frorn the text itself . 

 It was to the prior publication of Knight and Salisbury's book that 

 Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle, refered in a letter of 26 De- 

 cember 1809 to J. E. Smith: 'How shocked I was to see Salisbury's 

 surreptitious anticipation of Brown's paper on the New-Holland plants, 

 under the name and disguise of Mr. Hibbert's gardener! "** I think 

 Salisbury is got ° <l * to that point of shameful doing when no good man 

 could be found to defend him'. The nomenclatural consequences are 

 discussed by J. Britten in J. Bot. (London) 24: 296—300 (1886). 



As regards Matthew Flinders's Voyage (1814), 'the first copy of it 

 came from the publishers, G. and W. Nicol, of Pall Mall, on July 18th 



