CXX11 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Progress of Australian 
mitted to Sir TV. Hooker. Mr. Roe started from Cape Riche, and proceeded north-east to the 
Bremer Range, lat. 32° 35' S., long. 120° 30' E., and then south-east to Russell Range, whence he 
returned parallel to the south coast. The narrative of this journey, which contains much botanical 
information, was published in the ' Kew Journal of Botany/ vol. vi. 
Dr. Ferdinand Mueller's extensive journeys and important labours come next under review. 
They extend already over a period of ten years of uninterrupted exertion in travelling, or collecting 
and describing, often under circumstances of great hardship and difficulty, and are of very great 
merit and importance. 
Dr. Mueller first resided at Adelaide,* whence he removed to Melbourne, and was appointed 
Colonial Botanist at Victoria. In 1853 he visited the Fuller's Range, Mayday HiUs, the Buffalo 
Ranges, Mounts Aberdeen and Buller, and the Yarra Ranges, whence he descended to the coasts 
of Gipps Land, and returned to Melbourne by Port Albert and Wilson's Promontory. In this 
journey he traversed 1,500 miles, and collected nearly 1,000 species of plants. This journey is noticed 
in his l First General Report,' which contains a Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of 
Victoria. 
In 1854, Dr. Mueller visited more of the mountains of the colony, and explored many of the 
most difficult regions of South Australia; he also visited Lake Albert, the Murray Lagoons, the 
Cobboras Mountains, the Snowy and Buchan rivers, and the Grampian and Victoria ranges. During 
this expedition about 2,500 miles were traversed, and upwards of 500 additional plants collected. 
These are enumerated in Dr. Mueller's ' Second Report,' in which the catalogue of Victoria plants is 
raised to 1,500 species. 
In 1854-5, Dr. Mueller again visited the Australian alps, traversed the Avon Ranges, ascended 
Mount Wellington, crossed the Snowy Plains, reached the Bogong Range, and measured Mounts 
Hotham and Latrobe (7,000 feet), the loftiest in the Australian continent. Thence he proceeded to 
the Munyang Mountains, and afterwards to the south-east coast, when he returned to Victoria. The 
account of this journey is published in Dr. Mueller's f Third Report,' wherein the Victoria Flora is 
raised to 2,500 species, including Cry ptog amies, 1,700 being flowering plants. 
In the intervals between these journeys Dr. Mueller has been incessantly employed in the duties 
of the Botanic Garden, in arranging and distributing his herbaria, and in publishing their novelties. 
In 1855, Dr. Mueller accompanied Mr. Gregory in his celebrated expedition across northern 
Australia. Mr. Gregory's party left Sydney in a schooner, carrying their horses and all material 
with them. On the voyage out, Dr. Mueller collected on several islands off the east and north coasts 
of Australia, and landed with the party at the mouth of the Victoria River, in north-western Australia, 
in September. The river was ascended, and the country to the south explored to the limits of the 
Great Desert in lat. 18° 20' S., long. 127° 30 7 E. From the Victoria River they traversed Arnheim's 
Land, and keeping within a hundred miles of the sea, reached the mouth of the Albert, in the Gulf of 
Carpentaria, on the 30th August. Not meeting there with the expected supplies, Mr. Gregory and 
his party proceeded eastward, parallel to the coast, to the Gilbert River ; thence they travelled south- 
east, crossed the head of the Lynd, reached the Burdekin, followed it to the Suttor, and the Suttor 
to the Beylando, the Mackenzie, and the Dawson rivers, where they reached the first settlers' station 
on the 22nd November, and from thence proceeded to Brisbane and Sydney, which was reached 
without the loss of a member of the overland Expedition. 
* A sketch of the vegetation of a part of this colony, via. of the districts surrounding Lake Torrens, by Dr. 
Mueller, will be found in the ' Kew Journal of Botany,' vol. v. p. 105. 
