ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXXI. 



collector, but he was a man of very little education, and 

 had been a private soldier in Macquarie's Regiment (the 

 72nd), with horticultural training before he enlisted. He 

 was industrious until his health became impaired. 



With regard to publications a century ago local workers 

 had, of course, the works of Linnaeus, which were relied 

 on to an extent difficult to realise at the present day. 



In "Trans. Linn. Soc." there were papers describing 

 genera of interest to Australian botanists, beginning with 

 Vol. I (1791). Goodenia and Platyloblum were established 

 by Sir J. E. Smith in Vol. II (1791), and in Vol. Ill (1797) 

 he described a number of Myrtacese, including a dozen 

 Eucalypts. The same botanist in Vol. IV (1798) described 

 twenty new genera of plants, the whole "locus Australasia" 

 with the exception of a South African genus. Vol. V (1800) 

 has a less important paper from his pen (Sowerbcea), while 

 in Vol. VI (1802) Oorrea de Serra has a paper on Dortjunthes, 

 and Smith one on Pour Myrtaceae. Then in Vol. VIII 

 (1807) Smith described three Boronias, and Rudge illus- 

 trated and described seven new species of plants. In VoU 

 IX (1808) Smith has a paper on Conchum (Proteaceae), and 

 one on the Decandrous Papilionaceee, both important. In 

 Vol. X (1811) we have the classical paper of Robert Brown 

 "On the Proteacese of Jussieii, while Rudge continued his 

 work and Smith described Brunonia, in honour of Robert 

 Brown. In Vol. XI (1815) Rudge had a further illustrated 

 paper, bringing his list up to 26 plates, and this is the last 

 paper in the Transactions available a century ago. 



Going back a few years to consider Robert Brown's 

 work on Australian plants (he had been here from 1800-04 t 

 and left his assistant, Oaley, to 1810), we have " General 

 Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis," being an 

 appendix to " Flinders' Voyage," 1814, with ten of Bauer's 

 beautiful plates. This valuable paper chiefly refers to 



