BY J. H. MAIDEN, F.L.S. 2g^ 



botany, both marine and terrestrial, ^worthily entitle him 

 to the compliment gratefully bestowed on him in the 

 specific name." 



Stuart collected largely in New South Wales, and I 

 have given an account of his botanical work in the re- 

 cord of the botanists of that State (5), to which I beg 

 to refer my readers. That record includes a list of the 

 Tasmanian plants named after him. He was a most 

 accurate and careful observer, and his plants, most of 

 which are in the National Herbarium, Melbourne, have 

 labels which show him to have been a critical observer 

 and an educated man with a very neat handwriting. 



Through Miss Jessie Smith, of the Kurrajong-, 

 N.S.W., I have learnt the following additional particu- 

 lars concerning Mr. Stuart : — -Her father, the late Mr. 

 Charles Heath Smith, met him in Tenterfield, N.S.W.,_ 

 in 1875, and employed him as a gardener at Guildford, 

 N.S.W., until his death. He was a trained gardener,, 

 and well vegrsed in astronomy as well as botany. He 

 was employed by a Mr. Brown, in Tasmania, for part 

 of his stay there. 



I have seen a letter from Mueller to Mr. Heath 

 Smith, dated 3rd August, 1877, in which he said that 

 he met Mr. Stuart in Adelaide 30 years ago^ — that was. 

 immediatelv after Mueller's arrival in x\ustralia. 



