152 J. H. MAIDEN. 



tologie vegetale " (Paris, 1841); " Polygalees Brasiliens" 

 (with Aug. St. Hilaire) and other works on the same family 

 of plants. Cooperated with the same author in a work on 

 Capparidacse. Died at Paris, 15th April, 1863. 



Mr. Hedley informs me that there is a brief obituary 

 notice in the Journal cle Conch\)iolo(fic, xn, 1861, p. 86-7. 

 He was a distinguished ornithologist and conchologist as 

 well as a botanist, also a member of the Institute. Went 

 to Paris in 1853. For biography and list of works see 

 Toulouse Mem. Acad. Sou, v, 1861, pp. 5-16 ; Adansonia, \ , 

 1864-5, pp. 149-175. 



He is commemorated by Atriplcx Moquiniana, Webb, 

 also a monotypic genus of Cape Campanulae;r, Mouuinia. 



Planchon, J. E. (1823 - 1888). Speaking of the " vast " 

 Hookerian herbarium at Kew, " the chief foundation " of 



the Flora Australicusis, Bentham, who was never prodigal 



ulsu <n-< ~;-j\y ;n.-iv;i<r.l by the notes ami det em linat ions it contains 

 from the hands of various botanists win. have worked in it, and 

 e.-peeiai]y of Dr. Planchon. who had examined and corrected the 

 determination of a large portion of the specimens it contained 

 during several years that he had charge of it.*' (Preface to Flora 

 Anstntlieitsis 8*). 



Planchon had been Sir William J. Hooker's herbarium 

 curator, and surely any account of the services of the early 

 French botanists to Australia would be incomplete without 



He was born at Ganges, H'rault, 2l8t March, 1823. He 

 studied botany under Auguste Saint-Hilaire, and became 

 Doctor of Sciences, 1814; Curator, Kew Herbarium 1844-49. 

 Professor " Institut Horticole," Ghent, 1819-51. Doctor 

 of Medicine and Professor in the School of Medicine and 



