THE BANKSIAN BOTAMCAL COLLECTORS. 
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Brown wrote to Banks, Sydney, 6th August, 1803* — 
Poor Peter Good, who while he enjoy’d health was most indefatigable, and 
whose exertions in his department were without doubt the cause of his untimely 
fate, died a few days after our arrival here of dysentry, contracted soon after our 
<leparture from Timor. 
The date of his death was 11th June, 1803. 
On Monday last, Mr. Good, Botanist, belonging to H..M.8. “ Investigator,” and 
who died on the preceding day on board that ship, was brought on shore for 
interment. A number of officers attended in procession to the place of burial, 
where, after the funeral ceremonies were performed, a party of marines fired three 
vollies over the grave. t 
There is a letter^ from Brown to Banks, giving particulars of the 
disposal of Good’s private effects. 
See also Salisbury, Parad. Lond. t. 41 ; Gardeners' Chronicle, 29th 
October, 1881, p. 568; “British and lri.sh Botanists” (Britten and 
Boulger) ; Kew Bulletin, 1891, 301 ; Journal Kew Guild, v, 28 (1897). 
Good worked under Brown’s directions, and his route has been 
indicated in speaking of Brown (p. 107) and Flinders (p. 203). 
The genus Goodia, Salisb., was dedicated to his memory, and also a 
Banlsia and a Grevillea by Brown. 
In “ Hortus Kewensis ” many plants are attributed to Good as 
collector. Of course, as regards the Australian plants, he collected 
under the immediate supervision of Brown. The seeds were forwarded 
to Kew, where many new plants were raised from them, conspicuous 
amongst them being numerous species of Proteaceie, Myrtaceaj, and 
shrubby Leguminosae. These ultimately made Kew famous for New 
Holland plants. Dr. Lindley calling special attention to these plants 
in his “ Report on Kew,” drawn up in 1838. 
4. Gkoh(;k Calkv. 
He was the son of a Aorkshire horse-dealer who, when George was a 
boy, removed to Middleton, near Manchester, and engaged in farming. 
He was four years at the Manchester Grammar School. His attention 
was directed to botany by seeing a volume on Farriery on his father’s 
shelves, and desiring to know more about plants referred to in that 
work. He botanised in his native comity and beyond, and at least as 
early as 1798 he was corresponding with the celebrated botanist Dr. 
Withering. He was compelled to follow his father’s business as a 
farrier, and afterwards sought employment as a weaver, but lost no 
opportunity of studving.§ 
• Hist. Rec., v, 181. 
t Sydney Gazette, Sunday, 19tli June, 1803. 
J Hist. Rec., V, 204. 
§ See "Where There's a Will There’s a Way, or Science in the Cottage. An .Iccouutof the 
Labours of Naturalists in Humble Life,” by James Cash. London ; Robert Hardwicke, 192 
Piccadilly, pp. 21-41. This work contains autobiographical notes of Caley, which I cannot 
And elsewhere. He must have been born between 1775 and 1780. 
