76 J. H. MAIDEN. 
Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792—1855). Born at 
Craigend, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and died at Darling Point, 
Sydney, Sth February, 1855. Served throughout the Penin- 
sula War. Surveyor General of New South Wales, 1827. 
Hooker (8) says :— 
‘‘ Major Mitchell’s extensive journeys come next under review, 
and owing to his great fondness for natural history, and excellent 
system of observation, his writings and his collections have both 
proved eminently useful in advancing our knowledge of Australian 
botany.” 
It would not be proper to omit Mitchell’s name from a 
catalogue like the present, which includes many promoters 
of botany. Hooker proceeds to give an admirable resumé of 
his journeys, with especial reference to matters of botanical 
interest. Mitchell’s works are well known to Australians, 
and need not be cited here. For biographical details see 
‘*Men of the Time in Australia ’’ (Victorian series, 2nd 
edition, 1882), also (6). Pritzel, 195, says that Lindley 
described 77 new species of plants in various parts of 
Mitchell’s work ‘Three Expeditions,’’ and that these 
descriptions were collected together in Annales des se. nat., 
Vol. xv. (Jan. 1841). See also Heward, in Hooker’s Lond. 
Journ. Bot., July 1847, pp. 363-72. Major, afterwards Sir 
Thomas Mitchell, is commemorated in the following Aus- 
tralian species :— 
Abutilon Mitchelli, Benth.; Busbeckia Mitchel, F.v.M. = 
Capparis Mitchelli, Lindl.; Acacia Mitchelli, Benth. ,; Crotalaria 
Mitchelli, Benth. ; Crotalaria Mitchelli, F.v.M. = C. Nove-Hol- 
landie, DC., Paryphanthe Mitchelliana, Schau. = Thryptomene 
Mitchelliana, F.v.M.; Podolepis Mitchelli, Sond. = P. longipedata, 
A. Cunn.; Rutidochlamys Mitchelli, Sond. = Podolepsis ruti- 
dochlamys, F.v.M.; Goodenia Mitchellii, Benth.; Jasminum 
Mitchell, Lindl. = J. lineare, R. Br.; Leucopogon Mitchellii, 
Benth.; Amarantus Mitchellii, Benth.; Conospermum Mitchellii, 
Meissn.; Hremophila Mitchelli, Benth.; Grevellea Mitchellii, Hook. 
