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 66 voyage of discovery to Australia in the "Investigator." In Australia 1802-5. Speaking of Brown's researches on Australian plants, Hooker says:

"Hence, when we regard the interest and novelty of the field of research, the rare combination of qualities in the botanist, and the advantges and facilities which he enjoyed, we can easily understand why the botanical results should have been so incomparably greater, not merely than those of any previous voyage, but than those of all similar voyages put together."

Author of "Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ," styled "Opus aureum" in Germany. See Hooker's Eulogy of Brown in ''Proc. Linn. Soc.'' 1887-8, pp. 54-67. Botanist-librarian to Sir Joseph Banks 1810-20, then legatee of Sir Joseph's noble herbarium and library, with reversion to the British Museum. Brown became keeper of Botany to that institution in 1827. For further particulars of this eminent man, whose memory all Australians should revere, see my forthcoming "Life of Sir Joseph Banks."

Dryander, Jonas (1748-1810). Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, 5th March, 1748, died in London, 19th October, 1810. A pupil of Linnaeus. He arrived in London 10th July. 1777, and after Solander's death in 1782 became Sir Joseph Banks' botanist-librarian. He was librarian of the Royal Society and Vice-President of the Linnean Society. In his capacity as curator of the Banksian botanical collections he gave much attention to Australian plants, describing a number in Alton s Hortus Kewensis, of the first portion of the 2nd edition of which he was practically the author, although it is customary to refer to the new plants described in that work as Aiton's. The only purely Australian botanical work published by Dryander is "Chloris Novæ Hollandiæ, or Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and "Van Diemen's Land hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander." (Ann. Bot. of