108 J. H. MAIDEN. 
Plants at British Museum, Kew and Edinburgh. Pritzel 
164; Royal Society’s Catalogue iii, 655; Proc. Linn. Soce., 
1856-7, xxviii; Gentleman’s Magazine, 1856, i, 426; Dict. 
Nat. Biog. xxxi, 149. The above is from (1). He was 
buried at St. Mary’s, South Creek, N.S.W. With Mr. 
Bidwill and Mr. William Macarthur he did much work~in 
the hydridization of bulbous plants. I possess his annotated 
copy of De Candolle’s Prodromus; this shows in some 
measure how he studied Australian plants. He is com- 
memorated in the genus Kingia, R.Br., and also in the 
species Dodoncea Kingii, G. Don = D. viscosa, L. ? var. 
angustifolia; Acmena Kingii, G. Don=? Hugenia Smithii, 
Poir.; Dendrobium Kingianum, Bidw. 
Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813 — 1848). 
Born at Trebalsch, near Beeskow, Prussia, 23rd October, 
1813; lost in Australia, 1848. Letters in Journ. Bot., 
1845-8. Papers in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Science, iii, 
(1847); Fl. Tasmanice, cxxi; Woolls; Dict. Nat. Biog. xxxii, 
426. The above is from (1). I have no intention of giving 
at this place a lengthy account of Leichhardt. He was, 
apart from being an explorer, a botanist. He collected 
largely,and his works contain frequent botanical references. 
He planned a herbarium for Sydney; see his letter to Mr. 
Durando of Paris.t Lieut. B. Lynd, Military Barrack 
Master, late 63rd Regiment, and Secretary of the Com- 
mittee of the Botanic Garden and Museum (now the Aus- 
tralian Museum) at Sydney, he says has “‘been like father 
and brother to me.’” Mr. Lynd, who was Leichhardt’s friend 
and executor, presented Leichhardt’s herbarium to the 
Sydney Museum, and at Baron von Mueller’s request, it was 
forwarded to Melbourne for investigation, some years later. 
Very few of the plants were, however returned, and these - 
were handed by the Trustees of the Australian Museum to 
' Lond. Journ. Bot., v, 658, (1846). * Op. cit., 659. 
