THR BANKSIAN BOTANICAL COLLECTORS. 
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were transferred to the British Museum. A very complete set was, however, 
given to Sir W. J. Hooker, and hie own private herbarium was left to his early 
and attached friend, R. Heward, Esq., F.L.S. 
As an Australian botanist he may not have been as brilliant as 
Robert Brown or Mueller, but who could tell what he could have 
published had he been given the opportunity. As he himself said, 
with his dying breath, he was always on his legs — a wanderer. Expe- 
dition succeeded expedition, and he rarely had any time to deliberately 
sit down and write descriptively of the treasures which were first 
brought together by his endeavours. 
6. Axtho.ny P.\xt.\leox Hove, .M.D. 
A Pole, who was employed by Sir Joseph Banks and Kew to collect 
plants in India, 1787-9.* Collected also in Persia and the Crimea. 
See “ Tours". .... in Guzerat, Kattiawar, and the Conkuns, in 
1787-88,” published by Alexander Gibson for Bombay Government, 
185.0. f 
The beautiful Australian leguminous genus Ilovea was dedicated to 
him by Robert Brown. 
The following, although not formally appointed collectors, collected 
more or less for Banks. 
7. Dexis Coxsidex. 
Denis Considen was assistant-surgeon to the colony, under White, 
at its inception. He was one of the few British officers who investigated 
the natural history of the place. He writes to Banks, under date 
Port Jackson, 18th Xovember, 1788, J sending various zoological 
specimens. He also sends herbarium specimens, grass-tree gum, and, 
speaking of the “ large peppermint tree ” (Eucalyptus) says : “ If 
there is any merit in applying these and many other simples to the 
benefit of the poor wretches here, I certainly claim it, being the first 
who discovered and recommended them.” 
In commemoration of this pioneer work with Eucalyptus I have 
dedicated Eucalyptus Consideniana^ to his memory. 
Secretary of State Dundas wrote, 14th July, 1792, granting leave 
of absence to Considen to return to England, should the state of his 
health continue to require it. I know nothing further concerning this 
worthy. 
• Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 297. 
t Britten and Boulger, 87. 
t Hist. Bee., i (2), 220. 
S Proe. Linn. Soc. y.S.W., 1904, p. 475. 
Hist. Bee., i (2), 632. 
