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Gottingee, 1786, and other works.* There is at Kew a 
photograph from a drawing taken of him at Otaheite 
(Tahiti), also a bust, head bent in profile to the left, sailing 
boat and island in the background (8). 
The two Forsters made many botanical discoveries in the 
Pacific Islands, Fuegia, and New Zealand, but only one of 
Cook’s ships, the ** Adventure,’’ commanded by Captain 
Furneaux, visited any part of Australia, arriving at 
Adventure Bay, Tasmania, in February, 1773. The Forsters 
are commemorated by the following Australian plants :— 
Brathys Forsteri, Spach. = Hypericum gramineum, Forst.; Lu- 
chiton Posteri, Cass. = Gnaphalium japonicum, Thunb.; Microseris 
forsteri, Hook. f.; Woilastonia Forsteriana, DC. = Wedelia biflora, 
DC.; Thelymitra Forsteri, Sw.=T. longifolia, Forst.; Agrostis 
Forstert, R. et 8. = Deyeuxia Forstert, Kunth.; Carex Forsters, 
Wahlenb. =? Dichelachne forsteriana, Trin. = D. crinita, Hook. f.; 
Grisebachia LForsterrana, Wendl. et Dr.=?1; Howiea Forsteriana, 
Bece. = Kentia Forsteriana, Muell. = Pandanus Forsteri, Moore et 
Muell.; Pstlotum Forstert, Endl. = Tmesipteris Yorstert, Endl. = 
T. tannensis, Bernh. 
Gray, Asa (1810-1887). ‘*The United States Exploring 
Expedition, under Commodore Wilkes, visited Tasmania 
and Sydney in 1839, and large collections were made near 
Port Jackson, etc. These have been in part published by 
Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard University, Cambridge, in 
his excellent ‘‘ Botany of the United States Exploring 
Expedition, of which one quarto volume of letterpress and 
one folio volume of plates alone have hitherto appeared.” 
(3). See also ‘‘Brackenridge,” p. 93. Asa Gray never 
visited Australia. | 
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866). M.D., F.R.S., 
F.L.S. Born at Summerville, near Limerick, February, 
* “De plantis magellanicis et atlanticis commentationes.” (Comm. Soc. 
Gotting. ix.) [Gottinge, 1787] 4to. ‘ Herbarium australe, etc,” Gottinge, 
1797, 12 mo.; are from his pen. 
