Ixxxii Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
and correspondent of my father, was presented by his 
widow h 
(4) The Australian herbaria of Allan Cunningham, formed 
during that traveller’s exploration of the interior of New South 
Wales and Queensland, made by himself in 1836 and 1838, 
and that made by his brother Richard Cunningham in 1835. 
Presented by R. Heward, Esq., F.L.S., of Kensington, in 1863. 
(5) Mrs. Griffith’s collection of British Algae. Presented 
by the Baroness Burdett Coutts in 1864. 
(6) The specimens and original folio drawings, published 
and unpublished, upwards of 1,300 in number, illustrative 
of Dr. Boott’s great work on the genus Carex. Presented by 
his widow in 1864. 
(7) Dr. Lindley’s Orchid herbarium, containing types of his 
‘ Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants,’ of his ‘ Folia 
Orchidacea/ and other works. Purchased in 1865. 
(8) The immense herbaria of the traveller and naturalist 
Dr. Burchell, F.L.S., made in St. Helena, 1805-10, in South 
Africa (from the Cape to the Transvaal in 1811-5), an d in 
Brazil in 1825-9. Estimated to contain 15,000 species, 
accurately ticketed for habitats and dates. Presented by his 
sister in 1864. 
Turning now to my father’s concluding botanical labours, 
the last of his efforts, the results of which have been far- 
reaching, was to address in 1863 a powerful appeal to H.M. 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Duke of Newcastle, 
K.G., in favour of H.M. Government undertaking to assist 
in the preparation and publication of a series of Floras of our 
colonial and Indian possessions. At the same time, for the 
information of the Secretary of State, he, in conference 
with Mr. Bentham, drew up and submitted the following 
estimate of the scope and cost of such a series of Floras, 
1 The Hookerian correspondence in the Herbarium at Kew contains 145 letters 
from Mr. Borrer, dated from 1823 only. I am indebted to Miss Borrer, of Brookhill, 
Cowfield, Horsham, for a series of 139 letters dating from 1803 to 1839, addressed 
by my grandfather, Mr. Dawson Turner, to her grandfather, in which there are 
frequent references to my father which have been of great service to me in compiling 
this sketch. 
