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country, and who have gone before us! Especially when, as in the present 
ease, the person is almost totally unknown to fame, through several adverse 
and wholly unforeseen circumstances having operated to rob him of his due; 
and yet, one who did much, very much, under many great and serious 
disadvantages, of which, experimentally, we now know but little. 
Often indeed have I, when, 80—40 (et ultra) years ago, botanizing in the 
forests of New Zealand, thought on this young artist of whom I am about 
to write; when I have considered how greatly delighted he must have been 
when he first gathered and drew those flowers which then pleased me, and 
which I knew he and his botanical friends and companions had also seen ; 
and further, that, of all the scores of New Zealand plants and flowers (which 
he had the privilege of first viewing as novelties with an intelligent and 
loving eye and heart, and so truthfully and beautifully delineating), not one 
has yet been selected to bear his honoured name! At such times, beautiful 
and appropriate lines from our English poets—Milton, Gray, and Words- 
worth—would rush into my memory, as if evoked from the depths by some 
potent spell! Wordsworth truly and feelingly says (though many do not 
understand him)— 
“ To me, the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 
It is indeed remarkable (at least in contrast, and worthy of a passing 
remark), in looking over the names of the hundreds of plants discovered 
in New Zealand by its first scientific visitors, to find so few bearing the 
name of the finder or of any individual. Then, and for many years after, 
the disciples of Linnæus acted up to the Linnæan canons; but now, in our 
modern day, almost every other newly-discovered (or newly-named) plant 
or animal among us, is honoured or lowered with the name of its gatherer 
or lucky owner, or even with that of the child or patron of its describer or 
namer, no matter whether he or she is or is not a true lover and patron of 
science ! 
Dr. Hawkesworth, the editor of Cook's First Voyage, tells us in his 
introduction, that Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, in his equipping for 
a voyage to the South Seas with Captain Cook in the “ Endeavour,” was 
determined to spare no expense in the execution of his plan. He first 
engaged Dr. Solander, a Swede, and educated under Linneus; and he also 
took with him two draughtsmen—one to delineate views of figures, the 
other to paint such subjects of natural history as might offer; together 
with a secretary and four servants, two of whom were negroes." The 
first-mentioned of these “two draughtsmen,” a Mr. Buchan, died early, 
within a week after their arrival at Tahiti (their first port of call in the 
Pacific), deeply regretted by all on board; the other, the gentleman whose 
