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Born in Kangaroo Point, Qld, on 17 August 1890, died in Brisbane, Qld, on 16 August 1950.
Grandson of F.M.Bailey, and nephew of J.F.Bailey, he succeeded the latter
as Government Botanist in 1917, remaining in the position until his death.
He had prepared the 976 line drawings in F.M.Bailey's Comprehensive
Catalogue of Queensland Plants (2nd edn) (1913), and wrote extensively
on the Queensland flora, in the fields of both taxonomy and economic botany.
He was principally responsible for developing the Queensland Herbarium
as a public institution, setting up networks of collectors, organising
routine mounting of specimens, and insisting on adequate labelling. He
established exchanges with other herbaria, particularly in the western
Pacific.
He collected widely in Queensland, and in all other Australian
States, New Caledonia (1923), New Guinea
(1918, 1944, 1945) and the Solomon Islands (1945).
His main herbarium is
in BRI, but duplicates are widely distributed in, e.g. A, B, BM, C, DAO,
E, F, GH, K, MEL, MO, NSW, NY, S and US.
Source: Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic
Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed.,
ABRS. [consult for source references]
Portrait Photo: Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 3977 ID label: 1249427
Data from 18,247 specimens