112 J. H. MAIDEN. 
**Maro.’’ He was one of the Commissioners of the Colony 
to that Exhibition and was knighted and received the 
Legion of Honour for his services. He was an accomplished 
French scholar. His horticultural work is referred to in 
Sydney Hort. Mag., vii, 112. His work on hybridising 
Crinums is referred to by Bidwill, supra p. 88, and these 
two workers and Captain P. P. King, R.N., did valuable 
work in hybridising bulbous plants, and the result of Mr. 
Macarthur’s horticultural work may be seen at Camden 
Park even at the present day. He sent his gardener Mr. 
P. Reedy, to New Guinea with Mr. (afterwards Sir) William 
Macleay’s Expedition, the *“* Chevert’’ for new plants, and 
the preface of Mueller’s ‘Descriptive notes on Papua 
Plants.’’ Part i, shows that the material for it was placed 
at his disposal by Sir William Macarthur. I have a copy 
of this Part with the corrections in Sir William’s hand- 
writing. He made collections of N. 8. Wales timbers for 
the Paris Exhibitions of 1855 and London 1862, and sup- 
ported these specimens with herbarium material which is 
now at Kew. His catalogue is most valuable in that it 
contains most of the authentic aboriginal names which 
have been preserved of the trees etc. of the counties of 
Cumberland and Camden, N.S. Wales. He is commemor- 
ated in the genus Macarthuria, Endl., also in the species: 
Alsophila Macarthurii, Hook.=A. Leichhardtiana, F.v.M.; 
Hemitelia Macarthurii, F.v.M. = Cyathea Macarthurii, 
F.v.M. Iam indebted to Lieut. Col. J. Macarthur Onslow, 
his grandnephew, for some of the above particulars. 
McLean, John (———). Acting or Assistant Superin- 
tendent of the Sydney Botanic Gardens at intervals from 
1st April 1829 to 1836, but I have very few particulars 
concerning him. For such as I have, see (4). 
Macleay, Alexander (1767-1848). Born in Ross-shire, 
the son of the Deputy-Lieutenant of Caithness, 24th June, 
