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parks and gardens controlled by the Metropolitan Parks 

 Board of Melbourne, but he was an exceedingly strict man, 

 treating his sons with Spartan severity, and both of them 

 informed me that he never gave his sons a single lesson in 

 landscape work. 



William was privately educated by his uncle, Mr. Louis 

 Delafosse, and also at Lyndhurst College, Glebe, while he 

 was much indebted in his studies to William Sharpe Macleay 

 and John McGillivray, both of Sydney. Glad to leave his 

 father's nursery at Double Bay, he in 1868 accepted the 

 invitation of Commodore Rowley Lambert to accompany 

 him in H.M.S. "Challenger " to the South Sea Islands. A 

 dozen Wardian cases were supplied by Mr. Charles Moore, 

 then Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and they 

 were filled by Mr. W. R. Guilfoyle with most valuable 

 plants. On that cruise Mr. Guilfoyle discovered plants 

 which were eagerly sought after as acquisitions to horti- 

 culture. On his return, Mr. Moore selected six of the 

 Wardian cases for the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and handed 

 over the other six to Mr. Michael Guilfoyle as an act of 

 grace. He published some articles " A botanical tour 

 amongst South Sea Islands " in the "Sydney Mail " in 1868. 



In the following year, 1869, Mr. W. R. Guilfoyle settled 

 on the Tweed River on some large blocks of sugar land 

 that his father had purchased. He remained on the Tweed 

 for four years. In 1878 he received the offer of the Direc- 

 torship of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, and entered on 

 his duties on the 21st July of that year. His valuable 

 work in the remodelling of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens 

 is known to everybody, and is his monument. 



In 1896 he made an extensive tour of Europe and some 

 records of what he saw will be found in a series of twenty- 

 four articles from 1897 onwards, which appeared in the 

 " Bankers' Magazine of Australasia." 



K— September 7, 1921. 



