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hood of Brisbane, and also made some chemical investiga- 

 tions into plant products, e.g., the gums and resins, and 

 also into Macrozamia poisoning. His papers were published 

 as a supplement to P. M. Bailey's Botany Bulletins, and 

 also in Journ. Roy. Soc. Q., of which he had been President. 

 He was an excellent linguist and student of languages, and 

 a public spirited man. He left no children, but his adopted 

 son, Mr. William Lauterer Taylor, served in the A.I.F. and 

 was badly gassed in Belgium. 



Morrison, Alexander (1849 - 1913). 



He was born at Wester Dalmeny, near Edinburgh, on 

 15th March 1849, died at Cheltenham, near Melbourne, 7th 

 December 1913, and was interred in the Kew Cemetery. 

 There is a biographical notice in " Journ. Nat. Hist, and ScL 

 Soc. of W,A." Vol. v, p. 108. Ill health dogged him nearly 

 the whole of his life. He graduated in medicine at Edin- 

 burgh. He was in medical practice in Victoria (chiefly in 

 East Melbourne) for a number of years. In the early 

 nineties he again travelled for the benefit of his health, 

 and went to the New Hebrides (he dwelt, amongst other 

 places, at Havannah Harbour and Efate), and sent plants 

 to Mueller. Thence he went to Western Australia, and 

 did admirable work in his capacity (almost honorary) of 

 Government Botanist. He did not write much, but always 

 effectively, and most of his botanical papers are in the 

 journal which contained his obituary notice, and also in the 

 "Year-book of Western Australia. He was a contributor 

 to the "Victorian Naturalist, and two of his papers are 

 "New Victorian Micro-fungi" (x, 90, 119), and "Some 

 plants found growing at mouth of River Yarra and at 

 Werribee" (xv, 87). He was a charming man, full of inform- 

 ation, and anxious to impart it, and Australian science has 

 to deplore that the state of his health did not permit him 

 to publish more. 



