botanical mission in Rio Janeiro. He was author of many 

 botanical papers and other works. Of special interest to 

 us are : — 



(a) Icones Lithographic* ; plantarum Australasia? rariorum. 

 Decades duae quas botanicis offert, J. B. A. Guillemin, Societ. 

 Histor. Natur. Paris, Mussei Lessertiani Curator, Paris, 1827. 



(b) "Enumeration des plantes decouvertes par les voya^'ur^ 

 dans les lies de la Socie't< : , principalcment dans celle de Taiti, par 

 J. (B) A. Guillemin, aide de Botanique au Museum d'histoire 

 naturelle de Paris, Paris, 1837." In the text this work is headed 

 "Zephyritis Taitensis/' 8vo. pp. 84. 



The plants are those chiefly collected by MM. Moerenhout 

 and Bertero, but those of Lay and Collie and other collectors 

 and unpublished MSS. of Forster are employed. 



Moquin Tandon, Horace Benedict Alfred (1801-1863). 

 Born at Montpellier, 7th May, 1801. Took his degree as 

 M.D. In 1829 was professor of zoology at the "athenee" at 

 Marseilles, and in 1833 was professor of botany at Toulouse. 

 He was a distinguished litterateur. Went on a botanical 

 mission to Corsica in 1850. Succeeded Achille Richard in 

 the chair of tk histoire naturelle medicale " at Paris, with 

 charge of the plants of that faculty at Jardin dv* Plantes. 



ments ou multiplications d'organes dans les vegetaux. Ito. 

 illustrated. Montpellier, 1826. His " Chenopodearum 

 monographica enumeratio" (Paris, 1810) is valuable to all 

 Australian students of saltbushes. He specialised also on 

 the Amarantacea?. He was author of " Elements de Tern- 



