118 J. H. MAIDEN. 
I long held the opinion that his knowledge of the trees and 
timbers of his district was profound. He formed a herb- 
arium of all the trees of his extensive district and made 
collections of the timbers, most of which were, he informed 
me, unfortunately lost. Many of his herbarium specimens 
were presented to me after he left the Public Service, and 
are now ip the National Herbarium, Sydney... Many of his 
reports on forestry questions are valuable documents, and 
are in the archives of the Forest Department. At my 
instigation he contributed some articles to the Agricultural 
Gazette of New South Wales, and he was a contributor to 
the press on forestry questions. I named the North Coastal 
Red Box of New South Wales Eucalyptus Rudderi in 
honour of this excellent observer. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
xxix, 779). [For portrait see Plate 11.| 
Shepherd, Thomas (1779 ?—1835). Born in Scotland on 
the estate of the Earl of Crawford, where his father was 
head gardener. Died in Sydney, 30th August, 1835, aged 
96 years. Proprietor of the Darling Nursery, Sydney. He 
was a practical gardener who lectured on horticulture and 
landscape gardening and encouraged the cultivation of New 
South Wales plants. He delivered lectures on the horti- 
culture of Australia, at the Mechanics’ Institution, Sydney, 
which are reported at length in the “‘Sydney Herald’’ in 
the year 1834. They were separately published as ‘‘Lec- 
tures on the Horticulture of New South Wales, delivered 
at the Mechanics’ School of Arts, Sydney,’’ 8vo. pp. iv, 80. 
Sydney, 1835. (The preface contains some brief particulars 
of his family). ‘‘Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Aus- 
tralia,’’ Svo. pp. viii, 95, Sydney, 1836. (The Botanic 
Gardens copy has two pages of notes in the holograph of 
the author). There is a marble tablet to his memory near 
the pulpit, in St. Andrew’s Scots Church, Sydney, the work 
of W. Patten, Sydney. 
