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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2022-12-06 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-08-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007136b.htm corporateBody Brisbane Botanic Gardens AACR2 Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Toowong Botanic Gardens 1855 Start Place Mt Coot-tha, Toowong, Queensland, Australia Botanic garden Horticulture Conservation or Environment The Brisbane Botanic Gardens date from 1855 when the first employee, Walter Hill, was appointed as Curator (and later also Colonial Botanist) with a brief to establish a botanic garden. Land had been reserved on the Brisbane River in 1828, with responsibility for management ceded to a board of trustees when Queensland became a colony separate from New South Wales. The Gardens as developed by Hill focused on economic botany and the acclimatisation of useful plants. From 1888 to 1904 the Gardens were managed by the Queensland Department of Agriculture (and from 1904 to 1926 by the Department of Agriculture and Stock), and thereafter by the Brisbane City Council. A second garden was opened in 1975 on Mt Coot-tha seven kilometres from the centre of Brisbane; this garden is known as the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, while the riverside garden is known as the City Botanic Gardens. For extended periods the plant specimen collections of Queensland's Herbarium were housed at the Gardens. Pink, James (c. 1836 - 1923)

Head Gardener 1881 - 1886

 Hill, Walter (1820 - 1904)

Curator 1855 - 1881

 Bailey, John Frederick (1866 - 1938)

Curator 1905 - 1917

 Caulfield, Harold (1918 - 1994)

Curator 1956 - 1979; Curator, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens 1980 - 1982

 MacMahon, Philip John (1857 - 1911)

Curator 1889 - 1905

 Bick, Ernest Walter (1870 - 1949)

Curator 1917 - 1940

 Cowan, Alexander Menzies ( - c. 1920)

Head Gardener 1886 - 1889

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

1904 - 1926

 Queensland Department of Agriculture, Colony and State of Queensland (1887 - 1904)

1888 - 1904

 'Brisbane Botanic Gardens', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brisbane Botanic Gardens Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Walter Hill's palm collection at the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 1855-1881 Dowe, J. L. Walter Hill's palm collection at the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 1855-1881 2016 Palms and cycads 130 11-24 Journal Article: Philip John MacMahon (1857-1911) and the palm collection in the old Brisbane Botanic Gardens Dowe, J.L. (2017). Philip John MacMahon (1857-1911) and the palm collection in the old Brisbane Botanic Gardens 2017 Palms and cycads 135 14-24 Journal Article: Philip John MacMahon: Brisbane Botanic Gardens curator 1889 - 1905 and his vision of Brisbane as a "City of palms" Dowe, John Leslie Philip John MacMahon: Brisbane Botanic Gardens curator 1889 - 1905 and his vision of Brisbane as a "City of palms" 2018 Queensland History Journal 23 8 507-21 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 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: Australian botanist's companion George, Alex S. Australian botanist's companion Kardinya, W.A. Four Gables Press 2009