6 GENERAL REMARKS ON THE 



landed on Kent's Islands, in Bass' Strait, on the shores of 

 which the principal part of the Submarine Algse contained 

 in our collections were found. 



The reader of Captain Plinders's narrative is already ac- 

 quainted with the unfortunate circumstances that prevented 

 his revisiting Port Jackson within the expected period, soon 

 after the expiration of which we embraced an opportunity 

 of returning to England, where we arrived in October, 

 1805, with the greater part of our collections, and without 

 having absolutely lost any one species ; though many of 

 our best specimens of the South Coast, and. all the living 

 plants collected in the voyage perished in the wreck of the 

 Porpoise. 



The collection of Australian plants thus formed amounts 

 to nearly 3900 species. But before embarking in the voyage 

 636] of Captain Plinders, I enjoyed no common advantages, 

 through the liberality of Sir Joseph Banks, in whose Her- 

 barium I had not only access to nearly the whole of the 

 species of plants previously brought from Terra AustraHs, 

 but received specimens of all those of which there were 

 duplicates. Of these plants, exceeding 1000 species, the 

 far greater part were collected by Sir Joseph Banks him- 

 self, in the voyage in which New South Wales was dis- 

 covered. The rest were found at Adventure Bay in Van 

 Diemen's Land, by Mr. David Nelson, in the third voyage 

 of Captain Cook ; at King George's Sound on the south- 

 west coast of New Holland, by Mr. Menzies, in Captain 

 Vancouver's voyage; and in the colony of New South 

 Wales by several botanists, especially the late Colonel 

 Paterson and Mr. David Burton. Since my return from 

 New Holland I have had opportunities of examining, in 

 the same Herbarium, many new species, found in New 

 South Wales by Mr. George Caley, an acute and indefati- 

 gable botanist, who resided nearly ten years in that colony : 

 and have received from the late Colonel Paterson several 

 species discovered by himself within the limits of the colony 

 of Port Dalrymple ; which was established under his com- 

 mand. 



I have also examined, in the Sherardian Herbarium at 



