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sailed for Tahiti to transport bread-fruit trees to the 

 West Indies. 



Bhgh reported to Banks*, "' Bounty," Spithead, 5th 

 November, 1787: — 



" The conduct of Nelson, the gardener, is very satisfactory." 



He was one of those sent adrift by the Mutineers of 

 the Bounty, and eventually died of the exposuret, and 

 of fever at Coepang, Timor, 20th June, 1789. Bligh 

 says of him — 



" Whose good conduct in the course of the whole voyage and 

 manly fortitude in our late disastrous circumstances deserves 

 this tribute to his memory." 



In dedicating the genus Nelsonia, of the Acantha- 

 eeae, to his memory, Robert Brown (" Prodromus ") 

 says : — 



" Dixi in memoriam Davides Nelson, Hortulani meritissimi 

 qui in ultimo itinere Cookii plurimas novas species plantarum 

 primus legit, postea vero expeditioni priori Cel. Navarchi Bligh 

 adjunctus. in insula Timor occubuit."' 



His Australian, Cape, and Timor plants are in the 

 British ]Museum (6). See also '' Gardeners' Chronicle," 

 1881, ii., 267. 



NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM (? 1796-1859). 



Died at the Botanical Gardens, Llobart, 23rd 

 August, 1859, aged 63. He came from Sydney, and 

 had been in charge since 1847. Buried at St. George's 

 Cemetery (in the vault of Mr. H. Lipscombe, 27th 

 August). 



Lie was the immicdiate predecessor of Francis 

 Abbott at the Botanical Gardens, Hobart. 



OLDFIELD. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (1820- 

 1887). 



Born in London 12th January, 1820 ; died in Lon- 

 don 22nd May, 1887. His death was reported to this 

 Society on 15th August following; see the Hobart 

 " Mercury " of the next day. 



* Hist. Rec. of N.S.W., i. (2), 117. 

 t See also " Kew Bull.," 1891, 297. 



