by the plant genus Telfairia, the lizard species Leiolopisma telfairii (Telfair's skink), and the mammal species Echinops telfairi (lesser hedgehog tenrec). In 1819 Telfair was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of his services. From 1825 to 1848, John Newman was head of the Royal Botanic Garden at Pamplemousses. He regularly corresponded and exchanged specimens with notable figures in the botanical world, including William Jackson Hooker. The gardens displayed plants from Madagascar, Australia, the East Indies, China and South Africa. Some of these plants were illustrated in a report from Newman to the Colonial Office in 1829, including Bignonia telfairia from Madagascar. Newman named it after Annabella Telfair (d. 23 May 1832 Port Louis), a botanical artist, plant collector and wife of Charles Telfair, whom she had married in 1818. Some of her illustrations appeared in Curtis Botanical Magazine between 1826 and 1830, while her letters to Hooker are preserved at Kew. Telfair's collections were donated to the Zoological Society of London, but were dispersed and effectively lost when sold in 1855. References Publications From Belfast to Mauritius: Charles Telfair (1778–1833): Naturalist and Product of the Irish Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Ireland Michel, L. 1935. Conference sur Charles Telfair. Trans. Royal Society of Arts & Sciences of Mauritius C3 :19-48. 1778 births 1833 deaths 18th-century Royal Navy personnel 19th-century Royal Navy personnel Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century Irish botanists People from Belfast Royal Navy Medical Service officers