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seem to have been obtained from north of Perth, towards 

 the Murchison. 



Mr. H. S. King, the Surveyor General of Western Aus- 

 tralia, lias been kind enough to favour me with a list of 

 the districts in which he worked, compiled from various 

 plans and field books. In addition, he conducted an im- 

 portant exploring expedition, leaving Perth in June 1854, 

 when he explored the country between Toodyay and the 

 Upper Murchison. 



Bailey, Frederick Manson (1827 - 1915). 



The eminence of this doyen of Australian botanists, from 

 Mueller's to his own death, makes an extended notice at 

 this place unnecessary, since his life and work are well 

 known. He was born in Hackney, London, on 8th March, 

 1827, and died in Brisbane, 25th June, 1915. He was the 

 son of John Bailey, one of the earliest of South Australian 

 horticulturists, who arrived in that Province in 1839. The 

 subject of this notice left South Australia after a few 

 years, went to Victoria mining, and afterwards to New 

 Zealand. He came to Queensland in 1861, then recently 

 separated from New South Wales, but it was not until 1875 

 that he had a chance of utilizing his botanical knowledge, 

 when, the Queensland Government having appointed a 

 Board to enquire into the causes affecting live stock and 

 plants, he received his first botanical appointment. His 

 early work dealt with grasses and ferns. Subsequently he 

 was placed in charge of the botanical section of the Queens- 

 land Museum, and in 1881 he was appointed Colonial 

 Botanist of Queensland, a post he held till his death. His 

 work was chiefly on Queensland plants, and the results of 

 many of his separate papers will be found in his "Queens- 

 land Flora," a work which incorporates Bentham's "Flora 

 Australiensis" so far as plants from that State are con- 

 cerned. A full account of his career, and a bibliography 



