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on a dray, and we found a hansom outside and were glad to get to 

 the "Australia". It had been our intention to spend two weeks 

 in Sydney and neighborhood, but word came from the Trustees of 

 the Bishop Museum that they desired me to visit Christchurch in 

 New Zealand, and also Dunedin. With this sudden change of 

 plan we went early Monday morning to Cook's and secured tickets 

 for the New Zealand campaign. That night I went home with 

 Mr. and Mrs. Wansey to Hornsby, and the next day in the bush, 

 during an afternoon tramp, in which my secretary joined us, we 



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collected sixty-one species of plants in flower. Returning to town 

 the next afternoon we went to the Botanical Garden, which has 

 been greatly enlarged since my last visit. Here we had a warm 

 welcome from Dr. Maiden. 



Thursday, Oct. 24. Up early in the rain, leaving with Mr. 

 Stockdale, from whom I had bought many specimens on a former 

 visit, for his home near the Heads and not far from Botany Bay, 

 to look at a new colledlion of curiosities he had made. We found 

 several good things, but the prices were too high and the colle(5lion 

 was to be sold as a whole, which put it out of the question. Return- 

 ing for a hurried breakfast, we boarded the Kookaburra at P^ort 

 Macquarie wuth a party of friends for a trip about the beautiful 



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