12 HISTORY OF BOTANY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



in 1894 he accompanied the Horn scientific expedition to Central 

 Australia, exploring the Finke River and the MacDonnell Ranges. 

 The comprehensive botanical report is from his pen. Previous to 

 this expedition, Professor Tate published "A Handbook of the Flora 

 of Extra-Tropical South Australia," Adelaide, 1890. For the first 

 time a description of the flowering plants and ferns of our State 

 was made available to students of botany in a handy, although 

 severely condensed form. Professor Tate, who was born at Alnwick, 

 Northumberland, in 1840, died in Adelaide in 1901. 



Dr. Hermann Behr was a diligent collector, chiefly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Gawler, about the middle of last century. He described, 

 in conjunction with Schlechtendal, one of our best known trees, the 

 Peppermint gum {Eucalyptus odor at a) . F. G. Waterhouse, curator 

 of the South Australian Museum, botanised on Kangaroo Island in 1861. 

 E. G. Sealey and H. Heuzenroeder also gathered plants on that 

 island between 1849 and 1851. Carl Wilhelmi collected near Port 

 Lincoln in the early fifties, and Dr. W. Hillebrand and Blandowsky 

 near Adelaide about the same period. The Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods 

 studied our flora near Penola in the sixties and seventies. S. Dixon 

 devoted special attention to our native fodder plants, and Max 

 Koch collected largely on Mount Lyndhurst run, in the Flinders 

 Range. J. G. 0. Tepper contributed several botanical papers to the 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society as the result of his investigations 

 at Ardrossan, Clarendon, Kangaroo Island, and elsewhere. 



John Ednie Brown, Conservator of Forests from 1879 to 1890, 

 produced "The Forest Flora of South Australia." It consists of 

 beautifully colored plates of very large size, accompanied by 

 descriptive letterpress. Begun in 1882, it did not extend beyond nine 

 parts, of which each contains five plates. 



Dr. R. S. Rogers, the leading authority on Australian orchids, 

 describes the Orchidaceae in the present work. 



During recent years valuable botanical collections were made by 

 Captain &. A. White on three expeditions in the dry North: the first, 

 from Oodnadatta to the River Finke and the MacDonnell Ranges, 

 in 1913, principally in what is now federal territory ; the second, 

 from Oodnadatta to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges, in 1914; 

 the third, to Strzelecki and Cooper Creeks, in 1916. Several other 

 recent collectors have also done much to extend the knowledge of our 

 local flora, among whom may be mentioned Professor J. B. Cleland, 

 II. Griffith, E. H. Ising, and H. W. Andrew. 



J. II. Maiden, Government Botanist of New South Wales, visited 

 this State in 1907, and published in the following year "A 

 Contribution to the Botany of South Australia" (Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., vol. 32), treating chiefly of collections made on Kangaroo 

 Island and the West Coast. Mr. Maiden has dealt specially with 

 our Acacias and Eucalypts in the paper mentioned, and also in 

 others published in Sydney, notably (as regards the Eucalypts) in 

 his "Critical Revision of the genus Eucalyptus," a monumental 

 work, which is still in course of publication. Our local Eucalypts 

 and their essential oils were the subject of a paper contributed in 

 1916 by R, T. Baker and H. G. Smith, of the Technological Museum 

 of Sydney (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., vol. 40). 



Professor Osborn, of the Adelaide University, has written on our 

 plants and plant ecology in the Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of South Australia and in the Annals of Botany. 



