168 J. H. MAIDEN. 



an adequate necrology of aim was published. He co-oper- 

 ated with Harvey in the latter's "Flora Oapensis." He is 

 commemorated by the following Australian plants : — Aster 

 Sonderi F.v.M* = Olearia grandlftora Hook.; Calocephalus 

 Sonderi F.v.M.; Helichrysum Sonderi F.v.M. = Ixiolcena 

 tomentosa Sond. and Muell.; Coleostiilis Sonderi F.v.M.— 

 Levenhookia Sonderi F.v.M.; Styphelia Sonderi F.v.M. 

 = Astroloma conostephioides F.v.M.; Xerotes Sonderi 

 F.v.M. 



Verreatjx, Jules P. 



The following note usefully supplements those given in 

 (7), p. 153. It is taken from " Southey on Colonial Wools," 

 London, 1851, foot note to p. 119, and I am indebted to 

 Mr. Thomas Gill, c.m.g., of Adelaide, for it : — 



" Besides the names of botanists already mentioned, it may be 

 proper to add that M. Jules Verreaux, a Frenchman, who has for 

 the last five years been travelling in Australia and Van Diemen's 

 Land, has just returned to Paris with a collection of more than 

 115,000 specimens of natural history, among which are many 

 species hitherto unknown. This gentleman was sent out upon 

 this special mission by the Directors of the Museum of Natural 

 History in Paris, and his valuable collection is now deposited in 

 their establishment. The readers will have been prepared to 

 admit that the scope for researches of this kind in Australia is 

 almost unbounded; and although in Van Diemen's Land, Labil- 

 lardiere, Brown and Cunningham preceded the new commissioner, 

 sent out by a learned corporation in France, and there laboured 

 with great assiduity, even after the results of their studies were 

 made known, it was on all hands acknowledged that ample room 

 was still left for future gleanings. It is, however, most fervently 

 to be hoped that M. Jules Verreaux will have extended his 

 researches to other subjects besides those connected with Natural 

 History, as his illustrious companion, M. Alcide D'Orbigny, did 

 when he was sent out on a similar mission by the same parties to 

 Peru." 



