BY T. HARVEY JOHNSTON. 5 
subject, one of which was ‘‘A Half Century of Notes for the 
guidance of Amateur Fruit Growers.” In 1896 he repre- 
sented the Queensland Government at a conference of 
fruit growers held at Wellington, N.Z., when he contributed 
a paper on ‘“ Queensland Blight Fungi,” a subject with 
which he was well conversant. He paid visits to many parts 
of the State in connection with his work, one of the most 
noteworthy being that to the Bellenden Ker Ranges in 
company with Mr. Archibald Meston in 1889, which resulted 
in a number of new and interesting species being added to 
the flora. Another one to the islands of Torres Straits 
and Cape York in 1897 brought to light additional 
knowledge of the flora of that portion of the State and 
formed the subject of a paper read at the Sydney meeting 
of the Australasian Association for the Advancement 
of Science, in 1898. 
He always had an aversion to interfere with the work 
of other botanists and this was the reason why he would 
not describe plants sent to him from New Guinea prior 
to the death of Baron von Mueller, but forwarded them to 
that noted scientist who then was the sole Australian 
worker. Afterwards, however, he contributed, as occasion 
offered, articles on the flora of that island, in the Queens- 
land Agricultural Journal, some of the most interesting 
of which appear in the August, 1898, and subsequent 
issues. The material for these was obtained in that year 
while accompanying Lord Lamington’s party on a visit 
to Sir William McGregor, who was a close friend of the late 
Mr. F. M. Bailey. A brief account of-this trip appears 
in Volume XIV. of the Proceedings of this Society. 
In recognition of his labours in the cause of his beloved 
subject he was awarded the ‘“‘ Clarke Memorial Medal.”’ 
in 1902, by the Royal Society of New South Wales, and 
created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. 
George, by His Majesty the King, in 1911. 
He was president of Section D. (Biology) at the Sydney 
meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science in 1911. 
Fellow botanists have attached his name to about 
fifty species of plants to commemorate his connection with 
