RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN BOTANISTS. L13 
1767. Fellow 1794, and Secretary, 1798 —1825, of the 
Linnean Society. Fellow of the Royal Society 1809. 
Colonial Secretary of New South Wales 1825-37, and first 
Speaker of the Legislative Council 1843-46, and First Presi- 
dent of the Australian Museum at Sydney, founded in 1836. 
His name was given by Robert Brown tothe genus Macleaya 
(Bocconia), belonging to the poppy family. Died at Sydney 
18th June, 1848. There is a silhouette drawn on paper 
and a bust, profile to the right, in the Hooker Collection. 
There is also a line engraving by Charles Fox, after a 
painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., belonging to the 
Linnean Society ; to the waist, seated, clean shaven face, 
three-quarters to the right (8). There is a copy of this in 
the rooms of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. A 
distinguished entomologist and ‘‘a practical botanist.’ (R. 
Brown, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii, 45). Seealso (1). The Sydney 
Botanic Garden was under his official care in the early 
days and owes much to him. An admirable account of 
him from the pen of Mr. J. J. Fletcher will be found in the 
Macleay Memorial volume (Sydney 1893), in honour of his 
nephew, Sir William Macleay. He is commemorated in 
Anopterus Macleayanus, F.v.M.; Catakidozamia Macleayi, Hill=?; 
Macrozamia Macleayi, Hort.=?; Leichhardtia Macleayana, Sheph. 
= Octoclinis Macleayana, t.v.M.; Frenela Macleayana, Parlat.= 
Callitris Macleayana, F.v.M. 
Macleay, William Sharp (1792—1865). Son of the pre- 
ceding. Born in London, 21st July, 1792; died in Sydney, 
26th January, 1865; buried at Camperdown, Sydney. See 
Rev. R. L. King’s Pres. Address in Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. 
Wales, i, p. 48. Also introduction to Macleay Mem. Vol., 
by J. J. Fletcher, both of which give a full account of him 
and of his contributions to science. See also (4). He was 
the author of ‘* Remarks on the identity of certain general 
laws which have lately been observed to regulate the 
natural distribution of insects and fungi.’”’ (Trans. Linn. 
H—July 1, 1908. 
