28 RECORDS OF TASMANIAN BOTANISTS. 



He was educated at the ]\Iarisclial College, Aber- 

 deen, and was apprenticed to Dr. George French in 

 1819 for three years, going .through the nie:dical course.' 

 He studied botany under Prof. Henderson. He ob- 

 tained the degree of ASl. in 1S20. 



Going to Edinburgh in 182 1, he continued his 

 medical studies. Botany he studied under Prof. 

 Graham. He attended at the Edinburgh Infirmary for 

 ■one year (1824), and the degree of Doctor of Medicine 

 was conferred on him the same year. 



He was in private practice in London from 1825 to 

 1828. 



Coming to Aan Diemen's Land, he was appointed 

 District Assistant Surgeon for the district of Great 

 S'wanport (Waterloo Point) in April, 1829. He was in 

 charge of the Rocky Hills Probation Station, but prac- 

 tically lived at Kelvedon for the remainder of his life. 

 Both Mr. Edwin Cotton and Mrs. Francis Abbott in- 

 form me that be was in charge of the Royal Society's 

 Gardens, Hobart, before Mr. Newman's arrival in 1847. 

 In 1843 the members of the Tasmanian and Horticul- 

 tural Societies had determined to form a garden. The 

 Botanical Gardens were originally part of Government 

 House Gardens, surrendered by Sir John Franklin when 

 the Tasmanian and Horticultural Societies combined to 

 found the Royal Society. 



He is buried on the property of Edward O. Cotton, 

 of Kelvedon, Swansea, a relative, whose hospitality I 

 •enjoyed some years ago when I visited Swansea in my 

 search for particulars of Dr. Story and to collect where 

 Dr. Story collected, for he was an enthusiastic botanist. 

 He collected largelv for Mueller. 



.STUART, CHARLES (1802-1877). 



Born in England ; died at Parramatta, X.S.W., Sep- 

 tember, 1877, ^'""^^ ^"^'^^ buried in the Church of England 

 Cemetery there. This most meritorious botanist col- 

 lected &ea-weeds largely at Southport for Harvey 

 (Phycologia Australica). Harvey figured Areschougia 

 Stuartii, Harv., named in his honour. He states : — 

 ^' Mr. Stuart's meritorious explorations of Australian 



