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  PORT JACKSON (SYDNEY HARBOUR) - SHIPWRECKS
She was refloated with the assistance of HMS Fly and sailed for port Macquarie on 3 Ocrober 1826.
A pinnace from HM Penguin, screw steamer, was lost near Dawes Point, Sydney Harbour, 9 July 1914.
Refloated withh assistance from HMS Tamar, but found to be unseaworthy, and purchased by the colonial authorities and converted to a prison hulk for convicts awaiting transportation to Norfolk island, Moreton Bay and other penal settlements.
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Then he turned his attention to the Scrophulariaceae and the Fabaceae, producing equally extensive materials on those two huge families.
For years he worked on describing specimens that had been collected by others, Eriogonums procured by David Douglas, many of Karl Hartweg's specimens from Mexico and California, and also many of the plants collected on the voyage of the HMS Sulpher.
bicknellii: after Eugene Pintard Bicknell, international banker, ornithologist and youngest founder of the American Ornithological Union, prolific writer on natural history subjects and amateur botanist (1859-1925) (ref. Geranium bicknellii)
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