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of Australian Plants," and many works too numerous to mention at this place. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861; the King of Wurtemburg created him a Baron in 1871; in 1879 he was created a K.C.M.G. Biographical details may be obtained in the following: — Hooker (3); Henniker Heaton, "Dictionary of Dates;" Mennell (6); "Men of the Time in Australia," Victorian series, 2nd edition, 1882. The following appreciations were written after his death:—Woolis, William, "Sydney Mail," 17th October, 1896; Spencer, W. Baldwin, "Victorian Naturalist," xiii., October, 1896; Deane, Henry, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxi., 823 (1896); Maiden, J. H., Proc. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., xxxi., 38-43 (1897); also, Trans. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, Adelaide Meeting, 1907; Norton, James, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxv., 778 (1900). A bibliography of his works (some of his smaller writings are scattered throughout the world in publications difficult of access), to include, perhaps, reprints of some of his rarer contributions to science, would form a durable and valuable memorial of Mueller, a suggestion originally made by me in Proc. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., xxxi., 41. On 26th November, 1901, there was unveiled a Memorial to him in the St. Kilda General Cemetery, Melbourne, by his Excellency the Earl of Hopetoun, Governor-General, and I made the following address on the occasion:—

"I attend this function by instruction of the Chief Secretary as Government Botanist of New South Wales, and as President of the Linnean Society of that State as a delegate from the Society, by request of the Council. The last resting place of the greatest Australian botanist of recent times is classic ground. To many of our citizens this beautiful monument will be a remembrance of Mueller, who did so much to diffuse a knowledge of its vegetation, but the botanist requires no such adventitious aid, for as long as there are plants in Australia, the name of Mueller will be remembered in connection with them. He is the