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Vols, iv and v of the latter's Manual of Forestry, and it is 

 perhaps in connection with this work that he is best known 

 to Australians. He died on 13th November 1910, and there 

 are lengthy notices of him in "Nature*' for 24th November 

 and the "Gardeners' Chronicle" for 26th November, the 

 latter containing a portrait. He was a most distinguished 

 man, but was very little known in his native country, 

 partly because it does not appear that he returned to 

 Australia after his departure for England in his youth. 



Fitzalan, Eugene F. A. (1830 - 1911). 



He was botanical collector in Lieut. J. W. Smith's 

 Expedition to the Estuary of the Burdekin River, Q., in the 

 year 1860. An account of the plants is contained in the 

 following : — 



1. "Essay on the plants collected by Mr. Eugene Fitz- 

 alan during Lt. Smith's Expedition to . . . the Burdekin," 

 Melbourne, 1860, fcp. This report is referred to in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 29th September, 1861, p, 868. 



2. "Report of the Proceedings of the Queensland Govern- 

 ment Schooner 'Spitfire' in search of the mouth of the 

 River Burdekin on the north-eastern coast of Australia; 

 and of the Exploration of a portion of that coast extending 

 from Gloucester Island to Halifax Bay." Published by 

 authority, Pugh's Printing Office, Brisbane, 1860. 



Mr. J. W. Smith, R.N., Commanding the Expedition, Mr. 

 Fitzallan (so spelt) "Botanical Collector." Places men- 

 tioned, M. Island, Cumberland Group, Port Molle. The 

 publication contains a list of specimens (130) collected by 

 Mr. Fitzalan, roughly classified by Mr. Walter Hill, Botanic 

 Gardens, Brisbane. The object of the Expedition was the 

 desire of the new Government (Queensland had just been 

 separated from New South Wales) to find a port suitable 

 for the trade of the Kennedy district, and Port Denison 

 (Bowen) was fixed upon. 



