BY J. H. MAIDEN, F.L.S. II 



ing caused b}^ the Exhalation of Rhus radicans (Toxi- 

 codendron) at the Botanical Gardens, Hobart," 1886, p. 

 182; "Smut in Wheat," 1889, p. 95. 



ANDERSON, WILLIAM ( 1778.) 



Died 3rd August, 1778, off the coast of Russian Asia, 

 and an island sighted shortly after his death was named 

 Anderson's Island. Cook says of him : — " He was a 

 sensible young man, an agreeable companion, well 

 skilled in his profession, and had acquired much know- 

 ledge in other sciences." 



He was Surgeon of H.M.S. " Resolution," Cook's 

 Third Voyage, and also acted as Naturalist. Quoted by 

 Cook, e.g., in regard to Adventure Bay (Tasmania) 

 plants in his " A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean," etc. 3rd. 

 Edition, 1795, pp. 106-8. 



See R. Brown's " Prod. Florae Novae Hollandiae," 

 p. 409, where his descriptions of plants in Cat. Banksian 

 Library (Vol. 2, p. 52, and Vol. 3, p. 184) are referred 

 to. In his MSS. he described various genera, e.g., 

 " Collema " (Gooclenia, Sm.), " Euphocarpus " (Correa, 

 Sm.) ; " Ramsaia " (Bauera, Banks) ; " Aromadendrum " 

 (Eucalyptus, L'Herit.). 



He is commemorated • in " Andersonia sprenge- 

 loides," R. Br.— -j;" Sprengelia Andersoni," F. v. M. 

 Brown says his genus not only commemorates William 

 Anderson, but also Alexander Anderson, of the Botanic 

 Gardens, St. Vincent. 



ARCHER, WILLIAM (1820-1874). 



Born at Launceston, Tasmania, i6th May, 1820 ; 

 died a* Fairfield, near Longford, Tasmania, I4tli Octo- 

 ber, 1874; was educated at a school at Longford, and 

 afterwards went to England, where he qualified as an 

 architect, and, returning, practised in Tasmania. 



He was elected a member of the first Legislature of 

 Tasmania in 1851, and on his return from a second 

 sojourn in England in i860, became a member of Mr. 

 Weston's Ministry. He also twice represented Devon 

 in the Assemblv. On the death of his father he came 



