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Nelson, David ( - 1789). See (4), p. 23. 



Botanical collector and coadjutor of William Anderson 

 in Cook's Third Voyage. He collected in Tasmania. His 

 non-Australian plants were much more important. See 

 supplementary information concerning him by Mr. James 

 Britten, "Journal of Botany, liv, p. 351. 



Phillips, William (1803 - 1871). 



Born in Norwich, England, April 1803, died at Regent 

 Street, Sydney, June 1871. Arrived in Sydney 1842; devoted 

 himself to the study of botany. Became in 1844 an intimate 

 friend of Dr. Leichhardt, whose "Journal of Expedition to 

 Port Essington " he prepared for the press, and Leichhardt 

 endeavoured to persuade him to accompany him on his last 

 journey. Being an excellent artist, he executed the 

 botanical drawings which were used by Mr. Charles Moore 

 to illustrate the lectures on botany delivered by him at the 

 Sydney Botanic Gardens in the fifties. His skill as an 

 artist and earnestness as a student of botany may be seen 

 in his annotated copy of Brown's " Flora Novse Hollandise," 

 in the Library of the Botanic Gardens (presented by Mr* 

 Yarrington). Mr. Phillips made extensive collections of 

 plauts in the neighbourhood of Sydney and on the Blue 

 Mountains, which he sent to various museums and botanists 

 in Europe. He was an excellent classical scholar and 

 schoolmaster. Mr. Phillips was a close friend of Major R. 

 Lynd, with whom he shared Leichhardt's friendship. For 

 most of the above particulars I am indebted to my friend, 

 the Rev. W. H. H. Yarrington, m.a., Mr. Phillips' nephew. 

 Professor W, H. Harvey named a sea-weed, Hypocalymna 

 Phillipsii in his honour. 



Reader, F. M. (? 1850 - 1911). 



He was born in Berlin about 1850, and was an industrious 

 and accurate botanist who chiefly worked on the elucida- 

 tion of the flora of Victoria. He died in March, 1911. 



