124 J. H. MAIDEN. 
only living specimen in Europe of the Gigantic Water Lily 
(Nymphea gigantea), so elegantly described in last May number 
of Sir William Jackson Hooker’s botanical work.” (See Bot. Mag. 
t. 4647. “Several cultivators” in England had seed early in 
1852). 
Similar information was contributed to the *‘ Kilmarnock 
Journal ’’ of 24th June, 1852, and the *‘ Norwich Mercury ”’ 
of 26th June, 1852, and constitutes most of the information 
we possess concerning Mr. Strange. In the “Sydney 
Morning Herald ’’ of 21st November, 1854, is an account 
of the murder of Mr. Strange, Mr. Spurling (son of Captain 
Spurling) and two others by the natives of (the second) 
Percy Island, Queensland. See also the issue of 2nd 
December. See also the “‘ Kmpire’’ of 21st and 23rd 
November, 1854, and the ‘* Moreton Bay Free Press ”’ of 
the same date, the last account being much the fullest. 
Mr. W. Hill, afterwards Colonial Botanist, Brisbane, was 
of the party which was conveyed to Percy Island in the 
Ketch “ Vision,’ of which Mr. Strange was the owner. 
The massacre took place on the 15th October. Oollections 
of dried plants made by him from Sydney, Broken Bay, 
New Zealand, New Caledonia, etce., were on sale in 
London. (Hooker’s Journ. Bot., ix. 189, 1857). An 
interesting note entitled, ‘‘ Frederick Strange, the Con- 
chologist,’’ by Mr. Charles Hedley, will be found in the 
Colonial Museum Bulletin, No. 1, p. 50, Wellington, N.Z., 
1905 (1906). The following plants commemorate him: 
Strangea (Proteacez); EHutaxia Strangeana, Turcz =? 
and Grevillea Strangea, Benth. [For portrait see Plate 12]. 
Stuart, Charles (———-—-—). Hooker (3) says: “ Mr. 
Oharles Stuart has been employed in Tasmania in collecting 
at various times, chiefly, I believe for Mr. Gunn, ever 
since the year 1842. Many of his discoveries have been 
published by Dr. Mueller, and are included in this work.”’ 
