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idea of the number of species he discovered or specially investigated. All 
this is better reflected in his Manual, wherein are indicated the many 
he was accompanied by his friend the late Mr. J. Adams, of the Thames 
High School, and the names Senecio Adamsii and Elytranthe Adamsi, 
bestowed by Cheeseman, are a fitting memento of their comradeship. | 
Cheeseman’s explorations were not confined to the New Zealand Botanical 
Region ; he also visited Polynesia, and published in the Transactions of the 
Linnean Society a comprehensive account of the flora of Rarotonga, the chief 
island of the Cook Group. His general botanical knowledge was wide 
The Manual of the New Zealand Flora, to which must be added his and 
Hemsley's Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora (1914). Then come 
is writings of a philosophieal character which deal with the origin of 
the New Zealand subantarctic flora, and a 
naturalized plants of the Auckland Provincial District Finally, amongst 
his earlier writings also are several papers dealing with the pollination of 
certain species— a matter then receiving great attention through the 
influence of Darwin. 
There is not space available for a full account of the scope of the above 
writings; all, even the shortest, were distinguished by those characteristics 
which their gifted author possessed 
ment, clarity of expression, and accuracy, Above all, he had the supreme 
ift of infinite patience: all views expressed were the result of much 
cautious deliberation; the hurried methods of the present day were not 
or him. And in this spirit he approached his classic work, The Manual 
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conclusions of a master mind. As for this flora, it stands out the equal 
of any of that brilliant series of floras dealing wi 
British Empire which Were conceived, and in 
and Hooker. 
part executed, by Bentham 
- Hand in hand with his botanical 
rank 
: edge—by what is probably the most extensive 
a extant illustrating Maori ethnology. A peculiarly important 
addition will be Cheeseman’s almost complete herbarium of the flowering- 
Plants and vascular eryptogams of the Dominion, which some short time 
м he presented to the Auckland Institu for 
all students of the flora. 
