Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855). Born at Craigend, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and died at Darling Point, Sydney, 5th February, 1855. Served throughout the Peninsula War. Surveyor General of New South Wales, 1827. Hooker (3) says:—
"Major Mitchell's extensive journeys come next under review, and owing to his great fondness for natural history, and excellent system of observation, his writings and his collections have both proved eminently useful in advancing our knowledge of Australian botany."
It would not be proper to omit Mitchell's name from a catalogue like the present, which includes many promoters of botany. Hooker proceeds to give an admirable resume of his journeys, with especial reference to matters of botanical interest. Mitchell's works are well known to Australians, and need not be cited here. For biographical details see "Men of the Time in Australia" (Victorian series, 2nd edition, 1882), also (6). Pritzel, 195, says that Lindley described 77 new species of plants in various parts of Mitchell's work "Three Expeditions," and that these descriptions were collected together in Annales des sc. nat., Vol. xv. (Jan. 1841). See also Heward, in Hooker's Lond. Journ. Bot., July 1847, pp. 363-72. Major, afterwards Sir Thomas Mitchell, is commemorated in the following Australian species: —
Abutilon Mitchelli, Benth.; Busbeckia Mitchelli, F.v.M. = Capparis Mitchelli, Lindl.; Acacia Mitchelli, Benth.; Crotalaria Mitchelli, Benth.; Crotalaria Mitchelli, F.v.M. = G. Novæ-Hollandiæ, DC, Paryphanthe Mitchelliana, Schau. = Thryptomene Mitchelliana, F.v.M.; Podolepis Mitchelli, Sond. = P. longipedata, A. Cunn.; Rutidochlamys Mitchelli, Sond. = Podolepsis rutidochlamys, F.v.M.; Goodenia Mitchellii, Benth.; Jasminum Mitchellii, Lindl. = J. lineare, R. Br.; Leucopogon Mitchellii, Benth.; Amarantus Mitchellii, Benth.) Conospermum Mitchellii, Meissn.; Eremophila Mitchelli, Benth.; Grevellea Mitchellii, Hook.
