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Layard, Captain, St. Hilda. 
Ligar, Surveyor General 
Light.foot, South Yarra 
Lindley. Professor Dr.. London 
Loring, Cant., Commander of the Iris, C.B. 
Maxwell, G., Albany 
May, William, St. Hilda 
Merrett, S. II. 
Miohie, A., M.L.A. 
Middleton, William, Windsor 
Milligan, Dr. Jos., Hobarton 
Mitchell, Flemington 
Mitchell, W., Skipton 
Moody, Town Clerk of Collingwood 
Moore, Charles, Sydney 
Moore, J., Under Secretary 
Moore, Thomas, Chelsea 
Morgan, Dr.. Murrnmbidgee 
Massie, 11. G. 
Maund, Miss E. 
Mueller, Dr. 
McArthur, Hon. Major-General, C.B. 
McArthur, D. C. 
McCoy, Professor 
McGifiivray, Dr., Williamstown 
McMillan, Th. 
Naukivell 
Newell, Hooper, and Stephens 
Newman, Hobarton 
Oldfield, Aug. 
Palmer, Sir James, Pres. L.C. 
Perry, Eight Rev. C.,Bishopof Melbourne 
Phelps, H., Deniliquin 
Pittman, J„ South Yarra 
Poole, G. H. 
Pyke, V. 
Ralph, Dr. T. S., Snapper Point 
Ralstone, South Yarra 
Ridge, Oliver, South Park 
Ross, B., Mount Korong 
Ross, W., Murray 
Rule, J. J., Richmond 
Ruttor, Dr., London 
Sangston 
Selby, G. W. 
Shaw, Walter 
Shepherd, South Yarra 
Shepherd, Buninyong 
Shepherd, Sydney 
Shomburgk, R., Cawler Town 
Short 
Slade, Lieut. Edgar, Alberton 
Smith, Lower Darling 
Smith and Adamson 
Sonder, Dr., Hamburgh 
Stoney, Captain 
Stypmann. L. 
Tarleton, J. M. 
Taylor, C. H. Magill 
Thozet, Sydney 
Thwaites, G., Ceylon 
Turnbull 
Tyler, C., South Yarra 
Wade, Launceston 
Wadsworth, W. 
Walker, J. H., Upper Plenty 
Wallis, Port Fairy 
W eidenbaeh. Max., Adelaide 
Wells, Port Fairy 
Whelan, John, Emerald Hill 
Willielmi, Charles 
Wilkinson, D., Wellington 
Wilson, E. 
Wilson, J. S., London 
Winter, Aloyse 
Woolley, Alfred 
Woolls, W., Parramatta 
Wright, Barrister 
Wright, Commissioner, Wimmera 
Young, His Excellency Sir Henry, C.B., 
Tasmania 
Amongst the varied contributions, those from Sir William Hooker, K.H., of Kew, 
and from Mr. Louis van Houtte, of Ghent, have proved of the highest value. Besides, I 
have to bring specially under notice the zealous efforts of Capt. Kreeft, of the Marchioness, 
to serve our establishment by a regular transmission of Wardian cases from and to New 
Zealand, and the spontaneous offer kindly made by Mr. Wetton, of Sydney, to aid the 
transit of plants to and from this establishment by the Royal Mail steamers. Capt. 
Loring, C.B., Commander of H.M.S. Iris, as well as Messrs. Turnbull and Hentv, have 
obligingly rendered us a similar favor. 
In importing plants due preference has been given to those of utility and more 
general interest, and many of practical value are already contained in our collection. 
Amongst them — various Spice plants, the Tallow tree, the Nettle tree of Illawarra, the 
Desert Clianthus (which was figured as a notable flower already by Capt. Dampier), the 
Bottle tree of Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Litchi tree, the Cherimoir, the Banyan tree, 
the tall Pampas grass, the prolific Prairie Festuca, the edible Hovenia, the Gunyang, 
the Staranis, the Paraguay and the Chinese Tea, the Camphor tree, the Tulip tree, Waratah, 
Bananas, the American Sarsaparilla, the Cork tree, the Giant Pine of California, the 
Cochineal Cactus, the Chinese Grass-cloth plant, the Australian and Indian Rotang, 
the Coffee tree, the Cotton plant (which now without protection occasionally ripens its 
pods), the Red Cedar, the Kaurie Pines from East Australia, Polynesia, and New Zealand, 
Bog Bean, Acorus, Nelumbium or Sacred Pythagorean Bean, many medicinal plants, &c. 
In a memoir published by the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, iu their Transactions 
of 1857, some guidance has been offered to the colonist in selecting for then - gardens those 
plants which are deserving prominently a distribution over the settlements. 
Since neither in the narrow rooms of this office, nor iu the rather remote University 
Museum, the collections of botanical specimens can be so readily consulted as might be 
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