148 CHARLES HEDLEY. 
Storer, and myself) with great politeness, and after leaving him 
we went to. see Mr. Macleay, who lives in a large house, having 
extensive grounds, situated beyond the town of Woolloomooloo. 
He treated us with kindness, and showed us his fine collection of 
insects, and the plants of his large garden. He appeared to care 
little for marine invertebrata, and on the whole I was not much 
interested by my visit. He is a man of immense general inform- 
ation, having a remarkable memory, and is equally versed in 
zoology and botany. He is now about 80 years of age, and his 
working days are over.’ 
To-day I made one of several visits to the Botanic Garden of 
Sydney, which is very extensive, and much resorted to by the 
citizens. It is arranged and cared for in a very scientific manner, 
each tree and plant having its name painted on a board at its foot. 
In the centre of the garden | noticed the tomb of Cunningham. 
Jan. 1, 1854, Sunday. To-day the Commodore, Mr. Boggs, 
Mr. Kern, and myself, with Mr. Clark and another gentleman, 
formed a party to visit the monument of La Perouse at Botany 
Bay. After a ride of about seven miles through a sandy country, 
and passing through a grove, we arrived at the Sir Joseph Banks. 
Hotel (named after the great naturalist who accompanied Cook on 
his first voyage, and who landed here). After a good dinner, of 
which Boston ice was no unwelcome concomitant, we took a boat: 
and proceeded down the bay. Its opening is rather wide, and it 
is near the shores, shallow, presenting, at low water, many broad 
sandy beaches, which abound in a Zostera, like ours, which affords. 
food to numerous Zrochi. The second subregion is thickly strewn 
with a large Cerithium. 
We landed on a smooth sandy beach near the entrance of the 
bay, and while the rest of our party walked up the hill to the 
monument, I searched, with the help of a spade, the sand near low 
water mark, and found afew crustacea and many very interesting 
1 W.S. Macleay, see Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 1864-5, p. cii, but who 
was then sixty not eighty.—[C.H.] 
