THE BANKSIAN BOTANICAL COLLECTORS. 
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I have no further details of his botanical work in New South Wales. 
The date of his leaving New South Wales is not quite clear. It was in 
1810, and I have seen an Australian specimen collected by him on 
.5th February in that year. 
Cash {op. cit.) states that on his return to England he, with rugged 
honesty, astonished the Treasury officials by declining some of the 
money offered him, as he stated he was not entitled to it. He rejoined 
the Middleton Botanic Society, near Manchester, and became very 
intimate with Edward Hobson, also a botanist in humble life. 
Later, Caley became Curator of the Botanic Garden, St. Vincent, 
West Indies.* He arrived at St. Vincent 1st August, 1816, re- 
signed his post 2.5th December, 1822, and returned to England 
May, 1823. 
He thereupon settled at Bayswater, London, but he continued to 
correspond (as he had done during his absence in the West Indies) 
with his Middleton friends. He lived on his slender savings and. 
probably. Banks’ annuity. On 5th February, 1826, he wrote to 
Hobson urging him to compile a Flora of ^Manchester. 
He was survived by an .\ustralian cockatoo which he had brought 
home in 1810; he be<iucathed a small annuity to his pet. He had a 
slave, whom he had brought from St. Vincent ; he bequeathed him 
ins liberty. 
He seems to have been a physically strong, somewhat uncouth man, 
but of steiling honesty, and faithful to his few friends. 
The .Magazine of Xat. Hist., Vol. 1829, 310; 1830, 226, which contains 
many biographical details,! says that he died at Bayswater, 23rd 
Mav, 1829, and was buried in St. George’s burial-ground, Hyde Park, 
near Captain Flinders. 
In Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, .587, is a list of subscriptions, by Fellows of 
the Linnean Society, headed by Sir Joseph Banks, amounting to 
£220 14s. The President announced that the Society, under date 
2.5th May, 1818, had with this sum purchased “ an extensive and 
valuable collection of (Quadrupeds, Birds and Reptiles, made by 
Mr. George Caley in New South Wales.” 
Vigors and Horsffcld began the description of the birds in the above 
collection, with ornithological notes (with vernacular and aboriginal 
names), but they never completed it. {Trans. Linn. Soc., xv, 1827.) 
There is a complimentary dedication to Caley at j). 186, and there is 
no doubt that he was an excellent collector and observer of birds. 
“ A series of specimens of the native woods collected in New Holland 
by the late Mr. George Caley. Presented by the Executors of the late 
■ Kew liulletin, April, 1892, p. 97. 
♦ See also ]h . 1h91. 393; f^iard. Chron.y xxiv, 263 (1885); Britten and Boulger, p. 30 
