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Dr Lauder Lindsay was a botanist who 
visited New Zealand trom Great Britain 
in 1861-2. He spent several months in 
botanising in Otago, and published the 
cesults of his researches in “Contributions 
to New Zealand Botany’? in 1868. There 
also arrived shortly before Dr Lindsay an 
enthusiastic investigator of the flora of 
the colony in the person of Mr John 
Buchanan, who took up his residence in 
Dunedin. He collected large numbers of 
plants and made many important dis- 
coveries. The geological survey of Otago 
was at that period being organised by Dr 
Hector, and Mr Buchanan was appointed 
draughtsman and botanist. He accom- 
panied Dr Hector in many arduous ex- 
peditions to Central and Western Otago, 
and the botanical collections made con- 
tained many rare and interesting speci- 
mens, among them being ranunculus 
Buchanan, Hectorella cespitosa, celmisia 
ramulosa, veronica Buchanani, ete. Mr 
Buchanan’s researches were embodied in 
his ‘Sketch of the Botany of Otago,’” 
prepared at the request of the Commis- 
sioners of the New Zealand Exhibition of 
1865, held in Dunedin; but it was not pub- 
lished until 1869, and appeared in the first 
volume of the Transactions of the New 
Zealand Institute. Mr Buchanan _ sub- 
sequently removed to Wellington, and for 
a good many years investigated the flora 
of the North Tsland and published many 
interesting articles in the Transactions. 
His early collections were sent to Kew. 
but he subsequently formed an extensive 
herbarium for the Colonial Museum. He 
died in 1898, and bequeathed his private 
collections and papers to the Otago Uri- 
versity Museum. 
T have mentioned that Mr Buchanan was 
intimately associated with Dr Hector, and 
it may truly be said that the work of both 
these scientists has a special interest for 
Otago people, because of the valuable ser- 
vice they rendered in the early sixties in 
the exploration of this province. <A _ re- 
ference to Dr Hector’s paper ‘On the 
Geographical Botany of New Zealand,’’ to 
be found in the first volume of the Trans- 
actions, will show how valuable and com- 
