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walked up the coast from Bowen and stated that lie "knew 

 every nook and corner to Cape York." In 1887 he moved 

 to Cairns and exported large numbers of orchids, palms, 

 palm-seeds, ferns and other plants during the ten years he 

 lived there. He retired to Loch Street, South Brisbane, 

 where he lived with his daughter (Mrs. R. R. Robinson) 

 until his death on 22nd June, 1911. The photograph which 

 is reproduced was taken in 1909. He was one of those 

 botanical pioneers to whom Australian, and particularly 

 Queensland botany owes much. Many of the personal 

 notes above I obtained from Mr. Fitzalan himself, and 

 i rom his daughter. 



Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831 - 1914). 



He was born at Moorburg, near Hamburg, Germany, 30th 

 March 1831, and died at Darwin, Northern Territory, 31st 

 January, 1914. He became a naturalised British subject 

 on 9th December, 1869, having previously resided in South 

 Australia for fifteen years, joining the police in 1853 or 

 1854. He was made a Companion of the Imperial Service 

 Order in 1904. He joined the police force of the Northern 

 Territory in 1870, and spent the rest of his life there, hold- 

 ing the office of Inspector of Police for very many years. 

 He thus possessed unique opportunities for acquiring a 

 knowledge of the aborigines, and being an excellent photo- 

 grapher, he acquired a remarkable collection of negatives 

 of them. He wrote some papers in regard to them, chiefly 

 in the journals of geographical societies. For some photo- 

 graphs of the Northern Territory aborigines he received a 

 "magnificent gold huntings watch and signed enlarged 

 photograph of the Kaiser." He became a useful botanical 

 collector and correspondent for Mueller, who (amongst 

 other species) named Eucalyptus Foelscheana, a well 

 known Northern Territory tree, after him. The photograph 

 was taken 1 early in 1884. 



