94 J. H. MAIDEN. 
“Gorgon,” (22nd September, 1791) as a “ Superintendent.” 
He was styled ‘‘the public gardener”’ at Parramatta, and 
it is stated that he was sent out by Banks, but I have seen 
no Banksian memorandum about him. 
“The following parcels of land were in cultivation at Parramatta 
in November 1791, . . . The above grounds were measured 
by David Burton, the public gardener, who observes that the soil 
in most places is remarkably good, and only wants cultivation to 
be fit for any use, for the ground that has been longest in cultiva- 
tion bears the best crops.” (Hunter, p. 562). 
A report by Burton on some land near Parramatta, will 
be found at Hist. Rec. i, (2) 599. He was killed, 13th 
April, 1792, by a gun-shot wound when duck-shooting on 
the banks of the Nepean. He was evidently much esteemed. 
“This young man, on account of the talents he possessed as a 
botanist, and the services which he was capable of rendering in 
the surveying line, could be but ill spared in this settlement.” 
(Collins, Ist. Ed. 205 ; 2nd Ed. 164). 
He is credited in Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis with having 
introduced Podolobiuwm trilobatum to cultivation. Britten 
and Boulger, p. 28, quote Salisbury, Parad. Lond. f. 73 as 
giving a reference to Burton. The Burtonia of Salisbury is 
Hibbertia. The Burtonia of Robert Brown isa leguminous 
genus. 
Caley, George (177—-— 1829). Born in Yorkshire, England 
between 1775 and 1780. Educated at the Manchester 
Grammar School. He wrote to Sir Joseph Banks, asking 
to be employed as botanical collector abroad. He arrived 
in New,South Wales in 1800 in Banks’ pay. Governor King 
marked out a “‘botanic garden’’ for him at Parramatta, 
under Colonel Paterson’s directions. He explored New 
South Wales, naming Mount Banks after his patron, and 
made other geographical discoveries, while he obtained 
large botanical collections. He also botanised in Tasmania. 
