RECORDS OF QUEBKSLA:ND BOTANISTS. 375 



i., 10-i). "Experiments with Indian wheats in Queensland ''(^'6. i., 176). 

 Presidential Address before the Eoyal Society of Queensland (ih. ii., 

 G7). "An Inquiry into the Maize Diseases of the Cabooltiu-© District" 

 {ih. iii., 108). 



See a notice of his work by the then President of the Linnean 

 Society, Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, in Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., iv., 

 482, 1880. 



See a biogi-aphical notice of him in (4)- For obituaiy notices see 

 "The Telegraph," 18th June, 1894; "The Queenslander" (Brisbane), 

 23rd June, 1894; "Australasian Medical Gazette," 15th July, 1894 

 (with portrait). See also "Obituary notice of Dr. Joseph Bancroft" 

 by Eugen Hirschfeld (Proc. Roy. Soc, Q., x., 102). 



He is commemorated by the following plants : — Strychnos 

 Bancroftiana, Bail. ; Dendrohiam sjyeciosum vor. Hillii, forma 

 Bancroftianum, H. G. Reichb.f. 



A portrait of Dr. Bancroft will be found in this volume. 



Berxays, Lewis Adolphus (1831-1908) — 



Born in London, 3i-d May, 1831, died in Brisbane, 22nd August, 

 1908. He was the son of Dr. Bernays, Professor of the German 

 Language and Literature at King's College, London, and arrived in 

 New Zealand, 1850. When Queensland became a separate colony, with 

 her own Parliament, Mr. Beiiuiys, in 1859, was appointed Clerk of the 

 Legislative Assembly. He was made C.M.G. in 1892. He was the 

 first honorary secretary of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, 

 and was its leading spirit for veiy many years. He was a Fellow 

 of the Linnean Society of London, and a prominent member of the 

 Royal Society of Queensland. 



He was an assiduous collector of our native plants, • and was 

 specially interested in the introduction of economic plants into Queens- 

 land. He was a successful cultivator of many useful and ornamental 

 plants. 



He was author of the following Avorks : — " The Olive and its 

 Products . . . the Habits, Cultivation and Propagation of the 

 Tree, .&c." Brisbane, 1872. 8vo. " Cultui*al Industries of Queens- 

 land. — Papers on . . . useful plants suited to the climate." 1st 

 series. Brisbane, 1883. 8vo. 



He is commemorated by: — Phaius Bernaysii, Rowl. ; i!^e'penthes 

 Bernaysii, Bail. 



BiDwiLL, Joh:s; Carne (1815-1853) — 



Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Sydney (the first on vvhom these two titles were conferred), Commis- 

 sioner of Crown Lands at Wide Bay. He botanised much in the Wide 

 Bay and Brisbane River districts. See (6). 



BowMAXT, Edward Macarthur (1826-1872) — 



Born at Sydney, died 30th June, 1872, at Clermont, Peak Downs, 

 Queensland. 



Eldest son of Dr. James Bowman, avIio was Colonial Surgeon in 

 Sydney for some years. 



