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TTui"\'GrS^ty Lecturer on Forest Botany and Indian Forest Trees, 

 RoVal ]3otaiiic Garden, Edinburgli. 



3J^r. J. Hutchinson, "w-hose appointment as Assistant for 

 Tropical Africa in tLe Herbarium, M'as also reported in 190^ 

 {liM.y 1-c.), has been appointed by the Secretary of State for 



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Tlii3 J^pcretary of State for tlie Colonies lias sanctioned the 

 appoiiitinent, as a provisional measure, of Miss H. L. Geeen, 

 B.Sc., a temporary member of the Technical Staff at Kew since 

 1st Auo-ust, 1912, and of Mr. F. Flippance, first appointed to the 



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jiiRicK ;Manson Bailey. — It is with great regret that we 

 have to record the death of the veteran Colonial Botanist of 

 Queensland, Mr. F. Manson Bailey, C.M.G., which occurred at 

 Brishnuc on June 25th. Mr. Bailey was in his 89th year, and 

 was hoiking vigorously until within a few days of his death; 

 lettefij ^vritten by him Avere received at Kew by the mail reaching 

 Englnnd at the end of July. F. M. Bailey was born in Hackney 



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vieNV to nnding a fresh opening for botanical and horticultural 

 entcTju-ise, his father, John Bailey, in 1838 set sail for Australia 

 m tile frigate BucJcinghamshlre, of 1500 tons— the largest 

 vesj^el tJiut had till then sailed to the Antipodes— and landed at 

 HoMfast Bay, South Australia. 



+T.'^fi ^^ ?^'^^^' ''"''^ appointed Government Botanist and laid out 

 the ijist botanic garden in Adelaide. Times of stress ensuing in 

 boUUt Australia, however, caused John Bailey to resign his 

 position and he then establi.^hed a nursery in which his son 

 Matison lielped in the management and control 



it! ^x i,ush in Victoria attracted young Manson Bailey, 

 and J»e abandoned gardening, only to resume his old work on 

 the 1 Jness of his father. In 1858 he journeyed to New Zealand 

 and took up land m the Hutt Yalley, but was forced to leave 

 oil the outbreak of the Maori War, and after a brief stay in 



eltrblM^ll ^^^^' l'"" ^'"^'^^^^ ^* Brisbane in 1861, where he 



t?mi.i r.? "" '"" • ^""'^^T' ^'^"^■^' however, was not a con- 

 tmnou succ owing to financial conditions in Queensland. 



to iT,/,h.p • ! Q^.^'^^sland Government appointed a committee 

 to \^'lTtne into diseases affecting live stock and plants, and 



L/s i^vS ;y' ThF°"f ^^ ^° iHvestig.,te the botanical prob^ 



travel! a .r 1 -7°? '''^^ •'>^*^^' ^'' ^wn heart, and be 



alun WrtLwl,;:!^^^ throughout the State and contributed 



IT . ^^i Jll'}L\l'^^}''S ^-^1^ the native grasses of Queensland. 



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