86 J. H. MAIDEN. 
(Araucaria Bidwilli). There is some interesting corres- 
pondence on this subject in the ‘“* Sydney Morning Herald ”’ 
of 9th, 18th, 20th and 22nd June, 1906. See my biographical 
notes of him (4), and the following are all supplementary : 
Quotations in (1) are Pritzel 27; Journ. Bot., 1853, 252; 
Royal Society’s Catalogue, i., 360; Smith’s Kew, p. 67; 
Ann, and Mag., viii., 438 (1842) ; Gent. Mag., 1853; Dict. 
Nat. Biog., v.18. I was indebted to Mr. David Mitchell 
for the loan of a copy of the following rare work :— 
‘Rambles in New Zealand, by John Carne Bidwill (late 
of Exeter), Sidney, New South Wales. W.S. Orr and Co., 
London, 1841, 8 vo., pp. 93, with a map of the author’s 
route.’ Price, 2/6. The writer states that he arrived in 
Sydney in September, 1838. Intending to settle in N.S.W. 
he had (according to the regulations in force in those days), 
to wait a long time for land to be surveyed which he had 
selected. In the meantime he visited New Zealand, arri- 
ving in the Bay of Islands on 5th February, 1839. The 
narrative contains copious references to botanical matters. 
At p. 88 he says : 
‘‘These rambles were abruptly (early in April. J.H.M.) put 
an end to by the increasing business of the mercantile firm at 
Sydney, with which I am connected, and my time and attention 
became occupied in other pursuits. But soon after my return to 
Sydney it was determined that I should go again to New Zealand 
on commercial business, and having resided for some time at Port 
Nicholson (Wellington. J.H.M.) and its neighbourhood, I am, 
at this time (August 1840) enabled to add many further particulars 
respecting the country from my own continued personal observa- 
tion.” 
He conducted an extensive correspondence with Captain 
P. P. King, R.N., Sir (then Mr.) William Macarthur, of 
Oamden Park, and others. The late Hon. P.G. King, 
M.L.C., lent me a large number of Bidwill’s letters to his 
father, Captain King. They contain scarcely anything 
