THE BASKSIAN BOTANICAL COLLECTOR^. I 4 I 
In spite of his erratic nature and of the fact that he published 
nothing, it is probable that, next to Brown, we owe more to Calej' 
for diffusing a knowledge of New South Wales plants in Europe than 
to anyone during the first two decades of the infant colony. All 
his collections went to Banks, and appear to have been distributed 
among British and foreign collections without a record, in most cases, 
of the name of the collector. 
I was, therefore, very pleased a few years ago* to come across a 
number of Caley’s plants in the Vienna Herbarium, and the material 
is sufficient, in almost every case, for identification. Caley gives the 
aboriginal names of the trees in most cases ; we now possess a number 
of records of the language of extinct tribes which may be of philo- 
logical as well as botanical interest. The specimens were all mounted 
on a paper bearing the water-mark of the year 1810, and bear the 
herbarium stamp “ Herb. Maille, Uupl. Banks.” 
I have made some comments in regard to the specimens, and in a 
few instances have pointed out that the same names (allowing for 
reasonable differences in spelling) were in use by the Cumberland or 
Camden blacks, according to the list published by the late Sir William 
Macarthur| half a century after Caley’s time ; I believe that Caley’s 
names had never previously been published. 
•"). .Allan Clnxin(;mam:J. 
He was born at Wimbledon, near London, in 1791, and received a 
good education, his father intending hini for the law ; but he preferred 
gardening, and obtained employment at Kew, under Mr. W. T. Aiton, 
who was then engaged on his “ Hortus Kewensis.” Aiton wrote to 
Banks,§ asking that collectors might be despatched to collect for Kew, 
such work having been interrupted for a number of years on account 
of the war. 
Banks replied under date 7th June, 1814: — 
Should you be allowed to -send to the Cape of Good Hope and to ^7ew South 
Wales, I have no doubt of being able to give such instructions to the Governors 
of those countries as will enable His Majesty’s collectors to visit, at a very reason- 
able expense, countries hitherto unexplored, ami they will add to the Royal 
collection riches beyond the most sanguine expectations of those who have had 
less exj)erience in the produce of those countries than has fallen to my lot. 
By Treasury letter of the 13th September, 1814, Banks was informed 
that the persons he had nominated to this service would be appointed, 
• Agric. Gazette, y.S.W., 1903. o. 988. 
+ Catalogue of New South Wales Exhibits, Paris Exhibition, 1855, and London, 1862. 
t Abbreviated from articles by the author in the Public Sercice Jimrnnl, Sydney, 1903. 
i! " Report of the Committee on Botanical Work,” 1901, p. 84. 
