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20th June, 1789. Bligh says of him, “whose good conduct in the 
course of the whole voyage, and manly fortitude in our late disastrous 
circumstances, deserves this tribute to his memory.” 
In “ Hortus Kewensis” he is credited with having introduced the 
following plants to Kew : — 
PodaJyria sericea, Cape of Good Hope. 
Oxylohium ellipticum, ^ .D.L. 
ALelaleuca squarrosa , ^ .D.L. and X.S.^\ . 
liumex gignnteus. Sandwich Is. 
In dedicating the genus Nelsonia of the Acanthacese to his memory, 
Robert Brown* * * § says: — 
Dixi in memoriaiu Davidis Xelson, Hortulan meritissimi, qui in ultimo itinere 
Cookii plurimas novas species plantarum primus legit, postea vero expeditioni 
priori Cel. Xavarchi Bligh adjunctus, in insula Timor occubuit. 
His Australian, Cape and Timor plants are in the British Museum 
(Britten and Boulger). See also Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1881, ii, 267. 
2. ARCHIB.A.LD MeXZIE.S. 
Archibald Menzies was Surgeon and Botanist to Captain Vancouver’s 
expedition of discovery and survey to the X.W. coast of America. He 
was appointed on the recommendation of Banks, and Menzies’ instruc- 
tions were drafted by Banks. | It will be observed that the instructions 
were largely botanical and horticultural. 
Banks was further consulted^ by the Government in regard to the 
mode of carrying on the survey of the X.M*. coast of America. 
Under date Xootka Sound, § 26th September, 1792, Menzies gave 
Banks a general account of the voyage, including a reference to the 
newly discovered “ King George’s Sound,” where the “ Discovery ” 
stayed a fortnight, and where he made a “ copious collection of its 
vegetable productions, principally the genus Banksia, which are here 
very numerous.” 
Botanical collector. Born at AVeem, Perthshire. Entered as a gardener at 
the Botanic Garden.s, Edinburgh, and studied surgery at the University there. 
Became a surgeon in the navy, and was stationed in America, where he joined 
Captain Vancouver’s expedition, 1790-95, visiting the Cape, King George’s Sound, 
Xew Zealand, the Sandwich and Galapagos Islands, and A’’alparaiso, from which 
places he brought back a variety of plants and other specimens of natural history. 
His account of the voyage appeared in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History. 
• Prodromus.” 481. 
t Hiet. Rec., i (2), 424. 
X Ib., p. 456. 
§ lb., p. 638. There are other letters to and from Menzies in this volume. 
