Frederick Manson Bailey

See also: Bailey

Frederick Manson Bailey (born the March 8th 1827, deceased the June 25th 1915) was an Australian botanist of English origin which worked on the flora of the Queensland.

Frederick Manson Bailey was born in England. His/her father John Bailey is nursery gardener and producer of seeds. This last emigrates in Australia with all its family in 1838. They settle with Adelaïde in March 1839. John Bailey, appointed colonial botanist, is shortly after charged to set up a botanical garden. Having given up this mission later, it is established as nursery gardener in Adelaïde. It is helped in this company by his Frederick son who then leaves in 1858 to settle in New Zealand in the Hutt Valley. It returns to Sydney in 1861 and begins in the same year a trade of seed-bearer with Brisbane. During a few years, it collects samples in various areas of the Queensland and writes articles of newspapers on the life of the plants.

In 1874 it publishes a handbook of the ferns of Queensland ( Handbook to the ferns off Queensland ) and, the following year, it is named botanist of the council charged to supervise the diseases of harvests and the plants. It produces in 1879 off an illustrated monograph of fatty grasses of Queensland Ilustrated monograph the off Queensland . One entrusts then the responsibility to him for the botanical section of Queensland Museum. In 1881, it becomes Colonial Botaniste of Queensland , title which it will keep until his death. It publishes in 1881 the world of the ferns of Australia ( The fern world off Australia ). In 1883 appears has synopsis off the Queensland Flora , a work of almost 900 pages to which additional volumes will be added the following years. This work will be détrôné by the publication of the Flora of Queensland ( Queensland Flora ) in six volumes published between 1899 and 1902 with an index published three years later.

At the same time, it makes appear in 1897 has Companion for the Queensland Student off Seedling Life and Botany Abridged . One can still quote Catalog off the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants off Queensland published in 1890. This last, re-examined and increased, gives a Comprehensive Catalogs off Queensland Plants, Both Indigenous and Naturalized , abundantly illustrated which appears in 1912.

Botanist of ground, it makes also many forwardings with Rockingham Bay, Seaview Range and in the high valley of the Herbert River (1873), in the west of Queensland, in Roma and Rockhampton (1876), around Cairns and of the Barron River (1877), in the solid mass of Bellenden Ker (1889), along the Georgina River (1895), Torres Strait (1897) like in New Guinea (1898).

Married in 1856, with Anna Maria Waite, it will have a son, J.F. Bailey, which will be director of the botanical garden of Brisbane then of that of Adélaïde. Frederick Manson Bailey will be rewarded by the Clarke medal for Royal Society off New South Wales in 1902, and will be made companion of the Ordre of Saint-Michel and Saint-Georges in 1911.

In homage to its work, the other botanists gave his name to approximately about fifty species of which most known is undoubtedly Acacia baileyana .

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