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scarce then), and it is very desirable we should trace his 

 collecting localities. 



I am indebted to Mr. Henry Selkirk for a Surveyor's 

 record of Oaley's land at Parramatta, which was his 

 principal headquarters when in the Colony. 



For notes on Oaley's journeys in the present Oamden and 

 Oaks districts, see R. H. Oambage in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xxxvi, 545, (1911), and my " Sir Joseph Banks," 

 p. 132. 



An article, "George Oaley, an early botanist" by 

 Oaptain J. H. Watson, will be found in the " Sydney Morn- 

 ing Herald " of 18th July, 1914. 



A name association with Oaley is Pendle Hill, via Went- 

 worthville near Parramatta, where there is a Post Office. 

 Pendle Hill and Pendleton are near Manchester, England. 

 Another association is with the Middleton (Lancashire) 

 Botanical Society, one of the celebrated scientific societies 

 of working men for which the north of England is famous. 

 The Society is still doing excellent work. Oaley lived at 

 Middleton when a boy and rejoined the Society on his 

 return from New South Wales ("Sir Joseph Banks," pp. 

 127, 139). 



As regards the monument of stones on the Blue Moun- 

 tains known in the early days as "Oaley's Repulse," see 

 my "Sir Joseph Banks," p. 133. In the "N.S.W. Calendar" 

 for 1833, in the Itinerary of Roads at p. 109 we have " 49 

 m. (from Sydney). A pile of stones called Oaley's Repulse, 

 well known in the history of this (Blue Mountains) road." 

 It received this name from Macquarie, and the name has 

 erroneously adhered to it to this day. The heap of stones 

 or a cairn is in the vicinity of Linden, and was probably 

 erected by Bass or Hacking, but they left no record of 

 having done so. 



