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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005684b.htm person Cowley Ebenezer AACR2 18 April 1849 9 February 1899 Place of Birth Fairford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Place of Death Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia Horticulturist Plant collector Ebenezer Cowley was a significant collector of botanical specimens in northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea between 1890 and 1898. After working as a horticulturist in South Africa and Fiji in the 1870s, he came to Queensland in 1881 to manage the Victoria sugar plantation near Ingham for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. As Overseer of the Queensland Government's Kamerunga State Nursery near Cairns he was instrumental in trialling and experimenting with tropical crops such as paw paw, coffee and coconut. Cowley published regularly on horticultural matters in regional newspapers and in the Queensland Agricultural Journal. He collections were sent to Queensland Government Botanist Frederick Bailey who described a substantial number of new species from this material. Cowley's specimens are largely in the Queensland Herbarium 1881 1881 Life event - Migrated to Queensland 1889 1899 Career position - Overseer, Kamerunga State Nursery Queensland Herbarium (1855 - )

Cowley's collections were deposited in the Herbarium

 Cowley, Ebenezer (18490418-18990209)

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 'Cowley, Ebenezer', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cowley, Ebenezer Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The botanical collections of Ebenezer Cowley Dowe, John Leslie The botanical collections of Ebenezer Cowley 2014 Austrobaileya 9 2 263-78