 In April that year, Lady Franklin visited the new settlement at Melbourne, where she received an address signed by 63 of the leading citizens which referred to her "character for kindness, benevolence and charity".With her husband, she encouraged the founding of secondary schools for both boys and girls, including Christ's College.In 1841 she traveled to New Zealand meeting both Ernst Dieffenbach and William Colenso, who named the filmy fern Hymenophyllum frankliniae in her honour.