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grown in the public gardens of Brisbane, and a treatise on the 

 economic plants of Queensland. He did much for the 

 elucidation of the Alg* and the other Cryptogams. 



Mr. Shirley, one of the Past Presidents of the Royal 

 Society, who is well known to the public as the General 

 Secretary to the Meeting of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in 1895, published a concise and very 

 useful Lichen Flora of Queensland, which appeared in the 

 Royal Society's Proceedings in 1888. 



As we have now a " Flora of the Australian Fungi in 1892" 

 by Dr. M. C. Cooke, in London, we can really boast that 

 students of botany in Queensland have better and much more 

 accessible books at hand than they have in any country of 

 Europe. It may be added that our amiable Colonial Botanist, 

 Mr. Bailey, is ever ready to help and to give advice and 

 encouragement, so that during my travels in Europe I never 

 found such an excellent opportunity for studying botany as is 

 given here in Brisbane. 



Respecting the cultural industries of Queensland, much has 

 been done by the Acclimatisation Society of Queensland and its 

 able and energetic secretary and manager, Mr. Soutter. The 

 Past President of the Society, Mr. Lewis Adolphus Bernays, 

 published in 1883 a very valuable book on the cultivation of 

 useful plants suitable to the climate of Queensland. The book 

 is full of useful information for the scientist and the grower, and 

 occupies a prominent place amongst the books of this kind. 



The Technological Museum of Brisbane, which is under the 

 care of our Secretary, Mr. Bailey, contains a splendid collection 

 of Queensland woods, most of which were collected in 1886 for 

 the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London. The Colonial 

 Botanist, Mr. F. M, Bailey, has written a complete catalogue of 

 the whole collection. There exists also an " Official Guide to 

 the Museum of Economic Botany," by Mr. F. M. Bailey, 



The insect and fungus pests on the cultivated plants of 

 Queensland have been investigated and published by Mr. Henry 

 Tryon, of the Agricultural Department. Much benefit has been 

 derived by the planter and grower, and it is to be hoped that 

 the author will put before the public the result of his further 

 researches. 



