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by starvation, of most of his party. Amongst the survivors was Mr. Carron, the botanist, whose 

 narrative is full of excellent observations on the vegetation of the swampy and almost impracticable 

 country traversed. It includes the notice of a Nepenthes, which, with the rest of the collection, was 

 lost. Mr. M'Gillivray's herbarium was given to Sir W. Hooker, and contains several hundred species 

 in excellent preservation. 



The only other English naval expedition remaining to be noticed is that of Captain Denham, 

 now surveying the Pacific Islands in H.M.S. ' Herald.' He was accompanied by Mr. M'Gillivray 

 and a botanical collector : and has sent some interesting collections from Lord Howe's Island, hetween 

 Australia and New Zealand, and from Dirk Hartog's Island and Sharks Bay. 



The French Expeditions rank next in importance to the British. Of these the first is that of 

 D'Entrecasteaux. In 1792 the French Expedition, under General D'Entrecasteaux, visited Tasmania 

 and south-western Australia. Considerable collections were made by M. J. J. Labillardiere, who 

 published figures and descriptions of 265 of the most interesting in his ' Novse-Hollandise Plantarum 

 Specimen,' 2 vols. 4to, Paris, 1804, and described a few others in the narrative of the voyage, 

 which was written by himself, a work accompanied by folio plates of several of the plants. 



In 1800, the Expedition of Captain Baudin, in the ' Geographie,' ' Naturaliste,' and ' Casuarina,' 

 left France on a voyage of discovery and survey along the shores of Australia. Out of a large staff 

 of naturalists, MM. Leschenault de la Tour, the botanist,* and Eiedle, Sautier, and Guichenot, all 

 gardeners, seem to have been chiefly occupied with the botanical department, and formed large 

 collections, which are now in the Jardin des Plantes. They were collected principally on the islands 

 of the north-west and west coasts, in Tasmania and New South Wales. These were not published 

 in a connected manner, but they gave rise to various papers, in the ' Memoires du Museum ' and 

 ' Annales du Museum,' by Desfontaines and others. 



Some general remarks on the botany of Australia and Tasmania are given by M. Leschenault in 

 the second volume of the Narrative of the Expedition (4to, Paris, 1816) ; and many of the plants 

 figured in the fine work of M. Yentenat, ' Jardin Malmaison,' were introduced into Europe by the 

 officers of this voyage. ., 



In 1818 and 1819, Captain Freycinet's Expedition in the French corvettes ' Uranie' and 'Phy- 

 sicienne ' visited the Baie des Chiens Marins on the west coast of Australia, where considerable 

 collections were made by M. Gaudichaud, and afterwards, at various parts of New South Wales, 

 Port Jackson, Botany Bay, the Blue Mountains, etc. A few of the plants were published by the 

 same naturalist and others,! in a quarto volume of letterpress and folio of plates (Paris, 1826). 



In 1824, Captain Duperrey visited Sydney in the corvette ' La Coquille,' on a voyage of discovery. 

 She carried two naturalists, M. D'Urville (afterwards the celebrated xidmiral, and an ardent bota- 

 nical collector), and Lesson, an accomplished zoologist. A portion of the plants of this voyage were 

 published in 1829, by MM. Brongniart, D'Urville, and Bory de St. Vincent, in a series of 78 folio 

 plates, and a quarto volume of 232 pages ; both parts are however incomplete. 



In 1827 the French discovery-ship ' L' Astrolabe,' commanded by Captain D'Urville, visited 

 Port Jackson; she was accompanied by M. Lesson, as naturalist. Some botanical collections were 

 made, but more important ones were received from Mr. Fraser, Superintendent of the Sydney Botani c 



s Two other botanists, A. Michaux (afterwards author of the ' Sylva Americana'), and J. Delisse, also embarked 

 on this expedition, but left it at the Isle of France, on the outward voyage. Bory de St. Yincent, afterwards eminent 

 as a botanist, embarked as zoologist, and was also left at the Isle of France. 



f The Lichens and Fungi by Persoon, Alga by Agardh, Mosses and Hepatica by Schwsgrichen. 



