66 J. H. MAIDEN. 
voyage of discovery to Australia in the “Investigator.” _ 
In Australia 1802-5. Speaking of Brown’s researches on 
Australian plants, Hooker says: 
“‘Hence, when we regard the interest and novelty of the field 
of research, the rare combination of qualities in the botanist, and 
the advantges and facilities which he enjoyed, we can easily under- 
stand why the botanical results should have been so incomparably 
greater, not merely than those of any previous voyage, but than 
those of all similar voyages put together.” 
Author of ‘“‘Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandiz,’’ styled 
“‘Opus aureum’’ in Germany. See Hooker’s Eulogy of 
Brown in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1887-8, pp. 54—67. Botanist- 
librarian to Sir Joseph Banks 1810-20, then legatee of Sir 
Joseph’s noble herbarium and library, with reversion to the 
British Museum. Brown became keeper of Botany to that 
institution in 1827. For further particulars of this eminent 
man, whose memory all Australians should revere, see my 
forthcoming “‘Life of Sir Joseph Banks.”’ 
Dryander, Jonas (1748-1810). Born at Gothenburg, 
Sweden, 5th March, 1748, died in London, 19th October, 
1810. A pupil of Linnaeus. He arrived in London 10th 
July. 1777, and after Solander’s death in 1782 became Sir 
Joseph Banks’ botanist-librarian. He was librarian of the 
Royal Society and Vice-President of the Linnean Society. 
In his capacity as curator of the Banksian botanical collec- 
tions he gave much attention to Australian plants, describ- 
inga number in Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis, of the first portion 
of the 2nd edition of which he was practically the author, 
although it is customary to refer to the new plants described 
in that work as Aiton’s. The only purely Australian 
botanical work published by Dryander is ‘‘Chloris Nove 
Hollandiz, or Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and 
Van Diemen’s Land hitherto published, as far as they have 
come to the knowledge of J. Dryander.’’ (Ann. Bot. of 
