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country, and who have gone before its ! Especially when, as in the present 

 case, 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, 30-40 (et ultra) years ago, botanizing in the 

 forests of New Zealand, thought on this young artist of whom I am abou* 

 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 tliat 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 Linn^us acted up to the Linntean 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 Fh'st 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 "Endeavom"," was 

 determined to spare no expense in the execution of his plan. He first 

 engaged Dr. Solander, a Swede, and educated under Linnjeus ; 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 



