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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2025-07-01 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000982b.htm person Bailey John Frederick AACR2 5 August 1866 19 May 1938 Place of Birth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Horticulturist Botanist Botanic gardens director John F. Bailey, a leading botanist in Queensland and South Australia, was Assistant to the Queensland Government Botanist (his father, Frederick M. Bailey) for 16 years before becoming Curator of the Brisbane Botanic Garden on 1905. Over the next 12 years he made significant changes to the Garden, These included flood mitigation works, the installation of electric lighting, and a program of renovation for the Garden's buildings. He also re-established close connections with the Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Ballarat. Bailey's wider contributions to the horticultural and agricultural affairs of Queensland included lecturing at the Gatton, Agricultural College, acting as judge at horticultural shows, and publishing in the Queensland agricultural journal. For the last two years of his tenure, Bailey was simultaneously Queensland Government Botanist. He was actively involved in local scientific societies, being President of the Royal Society of Queensland. In 1917 Bailey became Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Here, as in Queensland, he made improvements to the Garden's landscape and sought to keep horticulture in the public eye. He joined the local societies: he was a member of the Dahlia Society of South Australia and office-bearer of the Field naturalists' section of the Royal Society of South Australia. In 1932 Bailey retired to Queensland. 1889 1904 Career position - Assistant to the Government Botanist, Queensland Department of Agriculture 1893 1905 Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of Queensland 1901 1901 Career event - Member of an expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria with W. E. Roth 1904 1905 Career position - Assistant to the Government Botanist, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock 1905 1917 Career position - Curator, Brisbane Botanic Garden 1909 1909 Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland 1915 1917 Career position - Government Botanist, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock 1917 1932 Career position - Director, Adelaide Botanic Garden Roth, Walter Edmund (1861 - 1933) Bick, Ernest Walter (1870 - 1949) White, Cyril Tenison (1890 - 1950)

Bailey was White's uncle

 Bailey, Frederick Manson (1827 - 1915)

Frederick was John's father

 Royal Society of Queensland (1884 - )

President 1909

 Brisbane Botanic Gardens (1855 - )

Curator 1905 - 1917

 Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, State of Queensland (1904 - 1963)

Government Botanist 1915 - 1917

 Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Colony and State of South Australia (1855 - )

Director 1917 - 1932

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 Bailey, John Frederick (1866-1938)

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 'Bailey, John Frederick', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bailey, John Frederick Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Botanical Colonisation of the Adelaide Plains Pulleine, R. H. The Botanical Colonisation of the Adelaide Plains 1935 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 35 Book Section: Bailey, John Frederick (1866-1938), horticulturist Vallee, Peter Bailey, John Frederick (1866-1938), horticulturist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 137-138 Journal Article: Report on the timber trees of Herberton District, northern Queensland Bailey, J. F. Report on the timber trees of Herberton District, northern Queensland 1899 Queensland agricultural journal 5 391-405 Journal Article: Introduction of economic plants into Queensland Bailey, J. F. Introduction of economic plants into Queensland 1910 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 22 77-102 Book: Seeds of Change: an Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden Aitken, Richard Seeds of Change: an Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden Richmond Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium/Bloomings Books 2006 Book: The Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia: centenary volume 1855 - 1955:history, guides and catalogues of plants Adelaide Botanic Gardens The Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia: centenary volume 1855 - 1955:history, guides and catalogues of plants Adelaide Government Printer 1955 Journal Article: The Bailey Family and its Place in the Botanical History of Australia White, C. T. The Bailey Family and its Place in the Botanical History of Australia 1945 The Journal of the Historical Society of Queensland 3 5 362-368 Book Section: Botany Robertson, E. L. Botany Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 101-49 Edited Book: The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens Aitken, Richard and Looker, Michael The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens Melbourne Oxford University Press 2002 Journal Article: C. T. White memorial Lecture: the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Herbert, D. A. C. T. White memorial Lecture: the Brisbane Botanic Gardens 1952 Queensland naturalist 14 4 69-77 John Frederick Bailey - Records Queensland Herbarium John Frederick Bailey - Records 1912 - 1949 Charts of flowering of trees and shrubs n.d.; press cutting book of general matters concerning the family 1912-49 (pasted into a Hardy Brothers catalogue); press cuttings regarding J.F. Bailey 1933-39 [3 volumes]. 3 volumes Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes