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 Rh Gottingæ, 1786, and other works. There is at Kew a photograph from a drawing taken of him at Otaheite (Tahiti), also a bust, head bent in profile to the left, sailing boat and island in the background (8).

The two Forsters made many botanical discoveries in the Pacific Islands, Fuegia, and New Zealand, but only one of Cook's ships, the "Adventure," commanded by Captain Furneaux, visited any part of Australia, arriving at Adventure Bay, Tasmania, in February, 1773. The Forsters are commemorated by the following Australian plants:—

Brathys Forsteri, Spach. = Hypericum gramineum, Forst.; Euchiton Fosteri, Cass. = Gnaphalium japtonicum, Thunb.; Microseris Forsteri, Hook, f,; Wollastonia Forsteriana, DC. = Wedelia biflora, DC; Thelymitra Forsteri, Sw. = T. longifolia, Forst.; Agrostis Forsteri, R. et S. = Deyeuxia Forsteri, Kunth.; Carex Forsteri, Wahlenb. = ? Dichelachne Forsteriana, Trin. = D. crinita, Hook, f.; Grisebachia Forsteriana, Wendl. et Dr. = ?; Howiea Forsteriana, Becc. = Kentia Forsteriana, Muell. = Pandanus Forsteri, Moore et Muell.; Psilotum Forsteri, Endl. = Tmesipteris Forsteri, Endl. = T. tannensis, Bernh.

Gray, Asa (1810 - 1887). "The United States Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Wilkes, visited Tasmania and Sydney in 1839, and large collections were made near Port Jackson, etc. These have been in part published by Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard University, Cambridge, in his excellent "Botany of the United States Exploring Expedition, of which one quarto volume of letterpress and one folio volume of plates alone have hitherto appeared." (3). See also "Brackenridge," p. 93. Asa Gray never visited Australia.

Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866). M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. Born at Summerville, near Limerick, February,