BY J. H. MAIDEN, F.L.S. I5 



I am indebted to Mr. Fereday's daughter, Mrs. 

 Brewer, of Corowa, N.S.W., for some personal notes 

 concernine: her father. 



•GUNN, RONALD CAMPBELL (1808- 1881). 



Born at Cape Town, 4th April, 1808; arrived in Tas- 

 mania, 1829, died at Newstead, Lamiceston, Tasmania, 

 13th March, 1881. 



As a child was at the capture of Mauritius and Bour- 

 bon with his father, whose regiment was afterwards at 

 the Cape until the peace after Waterloo, when it was 

 ■ordered to Barbadoes. R. C. Gunn was noted for a 

 ■commission in the army, but eventually sailed for Tas- 

 mania in 1829. In 1830 he was appointed Superinten- 

 dent of convicts for North Tasmiania, in 1833 placed in 

 the Commission of the Peace, and in 1836 was appointed 

 Police Magistrate at Circular Head. 



From Circular Head he made an expedition to the 

 mainland, visiting Port Phillip, Western Port, and Port 

 Fairy. In 1838 he was appointed Assistant Police 

 Magistrate at Hobart Town, and in the following year 

 Private Secretary to Sir John Franklin, and Clerk of the 

 Executive and Legislative Councils. In 1841 he re- 

 signed these appointments to take charge of the estates 

 of Mr. W. E. Lawrence, of Formosa, and subsequently 

 spent most of his spare time in exploring the unsettled 

 districts, and reporting on the flora of Tasmania. He 

 represented the Northern districts in the Legislative 

 Council and the House of Assembly, and was engaged 

 by the Government in various exploratory expeditions 

 for investigating the natural products and resources of 

 the State. 



In 1864 he was appointed one of the Commissioners 

 for selecting the seat of Government in New Zealand. 



" Ronald Campbell Gunn, Esq., F.R.S. and F.L.S. . to whose 

 labours the Flora of Tasmania is so largely indebted, was the 

 friend and companion of the late Mr. Lawrence, from whom 

 he imbibed his love of botany. Between 1832 and 1850 Mr. 

 Gunn collected indefatigably over a great portion of Tasmania, 

 but especially at Circular Head, Emu Bay, Rocky Cape, the 

 Asbestos and Hampshire Hills, Western Mountains. Flinders 

 and other islands in Bass' Strait, the East Coast, the whole 

 valley of the Derwent, from its sources to Recherche, the lake 

 districts of St. Clair, Echo, Arthur's Lakes, and the country 



