(Cheers.) She does not feel jealous that you should receive telegraphic intelligence from the outside world earlier than she does; on the contrary, she is anxious that you should be placed in the same advantageous position as regards telegraphic communication as your other sisters are.

(Applause.) Gentlemen, on her behalf, and on my own behalf, I thank you most heartily for the kind manner in which this toast has been received." RESULTS OF THE EXPLORATIONS.
Since then, in the summer of 1875, I have visited Europe and received many proofs of the interest felt by Englishmen in Australian exploration.
In the colonies, too, I find that the spirit of adventure which stimulates settlers to follow eagerly in the steps of the pioneer has been active.

Already stations are being advanced on each side along the shores of the Great Bight, and a telegraph line is being constructed from King George's Sound to Adelaide, along my route of 1870, which will connect Western Australia with the telegraph systems of the world.
Farther north, towards the head waters of the Murchison, advances have been made, and I and other explorers must feel a gratification, which gives ample reward for all our toil, in knowing that we have made some advance at least towards a more complete knowledge of the interior of vast and wonderful Australia.
APPENDIX TO JOURNAL.
1.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS, ETC., COLLECTED ON EXPEDITION; SHOWING ALSO THE LOCALITY FROM WHICH THEY WERE TAKEN: BY BARON VON MUELLER, C.M.G., ETC.
CAMP 21.
Latitude 25 degrees 57 minutes 32 seconds South; longitude 117 degrees 20 minutes East:-- Cassia desolata.

Trichodesma Zeilonicum.

Stylobasium spatulatum.