26 RECORDS OF TASMANIAN BOTANISTS. 



bourne, some 40 years ago. and a few years subsequently from 

 King George's Sound towards Adelaide, and again from Perth 

 to North-Western AustraHa, where for a year or so he mixed 

 freely with the natives, acquiring much knowledge 01 their 

 language and habits, which formed the subject of a paper read 

 before the Ethnological Society. London." (Melbourne 

 " Argus," July 13, 1887.) 



SCOTT, THOMAS ( " ). 



" Dr. Thomas Scott collected in Tasmania, and 

 transmitted specimens to Sir W. Hooker aJDOiit 1835 "' 

 (2) 



He was a collector of plants with Lawrence and 

 Gnnn. (See " Comp. Bot. Mag. i,, 272.) 



I have no further particulars concerning him, and 

 no species seems to have been dedicated to him. 



SHARLAND, WILLIAM STANLEY ( ). 



Mr. Sharland was a Government Surveyor, and ex- 

 plored much of Western Tasmania in the early days. 

 On the 8th March, 1832, he discovered Lake St. Clair, 

 and subsequently examined the country as far as 

 Frenchman's Cap. On returning from his survey tour 

 he used to bring specimens of the flora for botanical 

 friends, but did not himself collect. Mrs. Sharland 

 made large collections of algae near the mouth of the 

 Tamar. 



She collected before Prof. Harvey's advent to these 

 shores, for her collection of Tasmanian sea-weeds, sent 

 to the International Exhibition of 185 1, was awarded a 

 bronze medal. The specimens were collected at Kelso, 

 in the north. 



" She was the daughter of Major Schaw, who served 

 in the Peninsular War, and, after retiring from the 

 Army was Police Magistrate at Richmond, Tasmania, 

 for many years. 



" She was, I believe, born at Jamaica, in the West 

 Indies, 1813, and died at George Town, Tasmania,. 

 1859." 



The Rev. F. B. Sharland, son of the above, has 

 kindly furnished most of the above particulars. 



