RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN BOTANISTS. 105 
Good, Peter (—— - 1803). There is no record of the 
entry of this young Scotch gardener into Kew. Heappears 
to have been in the employment of Karl Wemyss, 1796. In 
17935 he was selected from the Kew stafi to proceed to 
Calcutta to bring home a collection of plants prepared by 
Christopher Smith. He returned to Kew, where he filled 
the position of foreman until 1st March, 1801, when he was 
appointed Botanical Collector under Robert Brown, the 
botanist attached to Flinders’ voyage (H.M.S. Investigator) 
of survey of the coast of Australia; at a salary of £100. 
Brown wrote to Banks, Port Jackson, 30th May, 1802 ':— 
‘In Mr. P. Good I have a most valuable assistant, a more 
active man in his department could hardly, I believe, have been 
met with.” 
Banks to Brown, 8th April, 1803,” speaks of— 
“Your able and quiet assistant, Peter Good. His diligence and 
docility have been before tried.” 
Brown wrote to Banks, Sydney, 6th August, 1803° :— 
‘Poor Peter Good, who while he enjoyed health was must 
indefatigable, and whose exertions in his department were without 
doubt the cause of his untimely fate, died a few days after our 
arrival here of dysentry, contracted soon after our departure from 
Timor.” The date of his death was llth June, 1803. ‘On 
Monday last, Mr. Good, botanist, belonging to H.M.S. “ Inves- 
tigator,” and who died on the preceding day on board that ship, 
was brought on shore for interment. A number of officers attended 
in procession to the place of burial, where, after the funeral cere- 
monies were performed, a party of marines fired three vollies over 
the grave.””* 
There isa letter,’ from Brown to Banks, giving particulars 
of the disposal of Good’s private effects. See also Salisbury, 
Parad. Lond., t. 41; Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29th October, 
1 “Hist. .Rec. iv, 177. 7 It.. v.89. * [b..v; 181. 
* Sydney Gazette, Sunday, 19th June, 1808. ° Hist. Rec. v, 204. 
