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papers on the same subject. Such publications were in the 

 Library of the Society. 



The President — In thanking Mr. Moore for his paper, said it 

 had also provoked remarks of an interesting nature. What Mr. 

 Anderson had said would prove of interest to many people at 

 present, and he hoped when that gentleman had had his analyses 

 made he would bring them under the notice of the Society. 



RECORD OF HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED PLANTS 

 FROM ARNHEIM'S LAND; 



By Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, k.c.m.g.,m.d.,ph.d.,f.r.s., &c 



[Bead before the Royal Society of N.8.W., July 2, 1890.'] 



The plants of Arnheim's Land became gradually known to a 

 now large extent in the course of this century through successive 

 observers. The earliest investigations were by the celebrated 

 Robert Brown, during Flinders' memorable exploratory voyage, 

 when from December 1802 till the commencement of March 1803 

 the east coast of Arnheim's Land was surveyed. During Admiral 

 P. P. King's four geographic voyages from 1818 to 1821 it fell to 

 the share of Allan Cunningham, to reveal much of the vegetation 

 along the north and the west coast of the territory mentioned. 

 Though other navigators touched subsequently at the same region, 

 no special phytologist was attached to their expeditions ; some of 

 these voyages however enriched other branches of the natural 

 sciences ; and valuable gatherings of plants were secured by Dr. 

 Bynoe, while Admiral Stokes visited Arnheim's Land in 1839, for 

 the great Kew establishment. 



Leaving minor other kindred efforts out of consideration, it was 

 only in 1855 and 1856, that further large access to our knowledge 

 of the plants of Arnheim's Land could be obtained, the interior 

 regions then for the first time coming largly within reach, through 

 Aug. Gregory's expedition, though Leichhardt had crossed in 

 1845 from the Roper River to Port Essington, and had not been 

 unobservant of the flora. About a dozen years ago Mr. Schultz, 

 a special and successful emissary of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, 

 traversed for botanical collecting purposes the vicinity of Port 



