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Brightman, Mena and Deccan and other names for example. For streets named after 
plants named after Bidwill see Appendix. He was a brave man who in effect gave 
his life for Australia and justly deserves such civic recognition but he and his 
pioneering work certainly deserve scientific rescuing from relative obscurity. There 
is no known portrait of him so perhaps it is time to commemorate him appropriately 
with plantings, especially the fruits of his hybridizing, in the Gardens he loved. 
Acknowledgements 
I am indebted to the Librarians of the Mitchell Library and Royal Botanic Gardens 
Sydney, the Librarian and Archivist Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Librarian of the 
Department of Botany in the Natural History Museum, London as well as to Jane 
Britten of the Woollahra Municipal Library and Philip Hanks of the Australian Club 
for help in getting access to the MSS and other materials in their care during the 
preparation of this paper. 1 am also grateful to Jim Angel, Barbara Briggs, Garrick 
Chambers, Richard Clough, Alistair Hay, John Murphy, Mary Tindale and Karen 
Wilson (Sydney), N.E. Gorrie (Maryborough), Marco Roos (Leiden), Peter Green and 
Nicholas Hind (Kew), Bob Cruden (Iowa City) and Mark Large (Palmerston North) 
for help over certain points in the text and especially to Anne Sing (Oxford) for 
seeking out obscure publications in England. 
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