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feared that much valuable information has been lost by his death. Among 
his most interesting letters are those describing his journeys to the eastern 
slopes of the Andes, which he crossed wherever he could in Peru and Bolivia. 
We may conclude with Messrs. Sander’s tribute to a remarkable man: 
‘““He appeared to have an iron constitution, and scarcely ever complained 
of his health in all the twenty-three years throughout which he was 
collecting and exploring. His sudden death comes therefore as a great 
shock and surprise to us. He was absolutely fearless out in the forests, 
but disliked intensely the noise and bustle of London and any large town. 
He was well received everywhere by the natives, owing to his tact, and he 
never carried firearms, not even on a month’s solitary exploration down 
the then little-known S. Francisco River and its tributaries, in Brazil. 
Louis Forget was every inch a man. He lies buried in the cemetery of 
Rennes, in France.” His name is commemorated in Masdevallia 
Forgetiana and Brassia Forgetiana, two of the numerous species introduced. 
by him to our collections. 
FREDERICK MANSON BaILEy, C.M.G.—The death is announced of Mr. 
F. M. Bailey, C.M.G., the veteran Colonial Botanist to the Queenstown 
Government, who passed away on June zoth, at the advanced age of 88 
years. His ‘‘ Contributions to the Flora of Queensland and British New 
Guinea,” which have appeared from time to time in the Queensland 
Agricultural Journal, contain descriptions of a large number of Orchids, 
and his monumental work, The Queensland Flora, includes representatives of 
as many as fifty genera. The Orchids were published in 1g02 (vol. v. pp. 
1514-1592). He came of a race of gardeners, and his father, who emigrated 
in 1838, was at one time Government Botanist of South Australia. The 
deceased’s early vears were full of adventure. After assisting his father in 
founding a nursery at Adelaide, he took part, in the.fifties, in the gold rush 
to Victoria, but was recalled to Adelaide by his father’s illness. Some three 
years later he took some land in New Zealand, which. he had to relinquish 
when war broke out there. Thence he went to Sidney, and later to 
Brisbane, where he set up a seed business, which proved unsuccessful. In. 
1875 he was appointed by the Queensland Government to investigate the 
cause of diseases in stock and crops, and afterwards became Curator of the 
Botanical section of the Queensland Museum. In 1881 he was appointed 
Colonial Botanist of Queensland, a position he held at the time of his death, 
though during a period of retrenchment there was an interval when the post 
was temporarily abolished, but Mr. Bailey continued the work without pay- 
It was in 1911, after a period of thirty years’ service, that his work received 
official recognition in the award of a C.M.G. His son is Mr. J. F. Bailey, 
Director of the Brisbane Botanic Garden. 
