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THE death of Frederick Manson Bailey, C.M.G., the veteran Colonial Botanist of Queensland, which was announced in the last issue of NATURE, will be felt as a great loss to Australian botany. He inherited his botanical tastes from his father, John Bailey, who emigrated to South Australia in 1838, the family having conducted the business of nurserymen and seedsmen in London for many years. F. M. Bailey helped his father for a time in the nursery business at Adelaide, which he established on resigning the position of Government botanist—to which post he was appointed on his arrival in South Australia—but he did not seriously take up horticulture again until he landed at Brisbane in 1861 after a spell of gold-digging” in Victoria and farming in New Zealand. He then established a seed business in Brisbane, a venture, however, attended with no great measure of success owing to financial conditions in Queensland, but his real opportunity came in 1875, when the Queensland Government appointed a committee to inquire into diseases affecting live stock and plants, and he was chosen to investigate the botanical problems involved. In connection with the duties of this appointment he travelled far and wide throughout the State, and gained that extensive knowledge of the flora of Queensland which enabled him to make his numerous and valuable contributions to Queensland botany.
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Frederick Manson Bailey, C.M.G. . Nature 96, 10–11 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096010a0
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