8 president's address. 



World of Australia." In the meantime, during the years 1877- 

 81, eight papers, one of them "On the Flora of .Stradbroke 

 Island," appeared in the Proceedings of this Society [Vols, ii.-vi.]; 

 in addition to two written in collaboration with the late Rev. J. 

 E. Tenison- Woods, one of them entitled "A Census of the Flora 

 of Brisbane"; the other "On some of the Fungi of New South 

 Wales and C^ueensland"[Vols. iv.-v.]. His first official publica- 

 tion seems to have been a booklet entitled "Inquiry for Seeds of 

 Grasses and other Fodder-Plants; with a List of the Grasses of 

 Queensland" [12mo., Brisbane, 1877]. In this, he gave some 

 particulars respecting the Board a23pointed by Parliament to 

 inquire into diseases of live stock and plants; and signed him- 

 self, at the end, "Botanist to the Board." Mr. Bailey distributed 

 liis numerous publications liberally, and they are well known. 

 With the aid of the "List of Contributors" to the first ten Volumes 

 of our Proceedings [10 entries]; Dr. Shirley's Queensland Biblio- 

 graphy [54 entries up to 1899]; and the recently issued Index to 

 Vols, i.-xxv. of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 

 there is no difficulty in following up his work. After 1899, his 

 most important productions were The Queensland Flora, in six 

 Parts(1899-1902); The Weeds and Suspected Poison Plants of 

 Queensland(l 906); and The Comprehensive [illustrated] Catalogue 

 of Queensland Plants, both Indigenous and Naturalised (191 2). 

 These three are, in reality, the collected and summarised results 

 of all his work, though, up to the last, he continued his series of 

 "Contributions to the Flora of Queensland," appearing in the 

 Queensland Agricultural Journal, giving the results of any sup- 

 plementary information available. 



It is difficult to estimate the total number of the additions to 

 the Queensland flora which Mr. Bailey was enabled to make, 

 from the way in which he tabulated his results. Thus, in his 

 Second Census (1889), Baron von Mueller gives the following 

 numbers: — Vasculares: Australia, 1,409 genera, 8,839 species: 

 Queensland, 3,753 species(42'5 per cent.). Mr. Bailey, in the 

 Comprehensive Catalogue, includes the vascular with the other 

 Cryptogams, and gives his results thus — Phanerogams of Queens- 



