22 RECORDS OF TASMANIAN BOTANISTS 



Friends in Tasmania " (i860}, a large and elaborate 

 work on the flora of the colan)^ with numerous coloured' 

 plates from the author's drawings. In 1891 was pub- 

 lished a second series of " Bush Friends in Tasmania." 

 She was a voluminous writer, and published many other 

 works, which are enumerated in (7). 



She did much to advance a knowledge of Tas- 

 manian plants by contrit)uting coloured drawings of 

 them to many internationa4 exhibitions. She was made 

 an honorary member of this Society. 



MILLIGAN, JOSEPH (1807-1883). .' ' 



Born in Du'mfriesshire ; M.R.C.S.E. 1829; was ap- 

 pointed surgeon to Van Diemen's Land Co.'s estab- 

 lishment at Surrey Hills in 1830. 



Became Superintendent of the Aborigines, and 

 visited their establishment at Flinders Island in 1843 > 

 remained in charge till 1855, superintending the re- 

 moval of the aborigines from Flinders Island to Oyster- 

 Cove in 1848. He left Tasmania in i860. 



" Dr. Joseph Milligan, of Hobarton (now Secretary to the 

 Royal Society of Hobarton), has, since the year 1834, Aasited 

 many parts of Tasmania, and made several most interesting dis- 

 coveries, especially on its loftiest mountains and East Coast."' 

 (2) 



He Avas one of the founders of this Society, and its 

 Secretary from 1844 to i860. He was considerable 

 authority on the aborigines of Tasmania. A list of his 

 papers will be found at p. 24 of Morton's Register of 

 Papers in the " Tas. Journ. and Roy. Soc."' 



His " Vocabulary of Dialects of the Aboriginal 

 Tribes of Tasmania " is reprinted in Brough Smyth's 

 "Aborigines of Victoria" ii., 415-433. 



He Avrote chiefly on the a'borig-ines, meteorology,, 

 and zoo-log}-. He was employed by Governor Sir Wil- 

 liam Denison, in the interval of other duties, in making 

 surveys and reports on some of the numerous coal-fields 

 on the 'island. (See Blue-book. '' Papers relative to 

 Crown Lands in the Australian Colonies." p. 1.25. 185 1.) 

 There is a paper by him " On some Fossil Plants Found 

 near Hobart Town and Launceston " ("Tas. Journ. iii.,. 

 131, 1849.) -^^ ^^^s a most assiduous observer of Tas- 

 manian plants, and collected largely. 



