lO RECORDS OF TASMANIAN BOTANISTS. 



Hooker, J. D. — " Introductory Essay to the Flora 

 of Tasmania," cxii.-cxxviii. ("Outlines of the progress of" 

 Botanical discovery in Australia"). Quoted as (2). 



Alaiden, J.H. — Address of the President, Section D, 

 Biology, Australasian Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, Adelaide Meeting, 1907. Contains biogra- 

 phical notices of South Australian and some other 

 botanists. Quoted as (4). 



" Records of Australian Botanists — (a) General, (b) 

 New South Wales." (" Proc. Roy. Soc," N.S.W,. xHi.,. 

 1908.) Quoted as (5). 



" Records of Victorian Botanists " (" Vict. Nat.," 

 190S, p. 101-117. Quoted as (8). 



"' Records of Western Australian Botanists " 

 (" Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist., 1909.") Quoted as (9). 



Britten and Boulger. — " British and Irish Botanists." 

 Quoted as (6)- 



Mennell, Philip. — " The Dictionary of Australian 

 Biography from the Inauguration of Responsible Go- 

 vernment down to the Present Time " (1855-1892). 

 London, 1892. Quoted as (7). 



ABBOTT, FRANCIS, Jr. (1834-1903V 



Born at Derby, England, i8th June, 1834; died at 

 Hobart, 22nd November, 1903. Buried at Cornelian 

 Bay Cemetery. 



He was appointed Superintendent of Botanical Gar- 

 dens, Hobart, 8th December, 1859, and was connected 

 with them from the age of 17, having been apprenticed 

 to his predecessor, F. W. Newman. 



He was a genial, kindly man, full of practical know- 

 ledge, never more happy than when he Avas imparting it 

 to others. 



iPIe was the author of the following papers in the 

 Journal of this Society: — "The Sugar Beet," 1871, p. 

 31; "Thistles," 1878, p. 73; "Wild or Canadian Rice 

 {Zizania aquatica), " 1878, p. y^; " Notes on New Plants, 

 introduced into the Royal Society's Gardens during 

 1883," 1883, p. 186: " Notes on a Recent Case of Poison- 



