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Cowley, Ebenezer

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

career:

Overseer, Kamerunga State Nursery, North Queensland; an assiduous collector of Australian plants. In May 1893 he went to New Guinea at the request of the Queensland Government to collect samples of sugar-canes for trial in Australia.¹

He made an earlier (Dec. 1892) attempt to collect sugar-cane varieties in Papua (Mabudauan, Samarai, Thursday I.), but the material was so thoroughly fumigated that not a single bud survived.⁴

collections:

During his New Guinea trip he made general, not extensive, botanical collections; they are incorporated in Herb. Brisbane [BRI]. He collected at least in Kwato Isl. (Samarai Distr.) and at Port Moresby (Papua).²

Also some from Thursday Isl. (1893).³

literature:

(1) cf. List in Ann. Rep. Dept Agric. Brisbane 1893/94, p. 43.
(2) cf. Journ. But. 58, 1920, p. 193; and Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 34, 1922, p. 49-51.
(3) In F.M. Bailey: ‘A few words about the flora of the islands of Torres Straits and the mainland about Somerset’ (Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Sydney sess. 1898, p. 423-447).
(4) Cf. Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. Brisbane 15, 1951, p. 37-38.

	Career Collections Literature
	Cowley, Ebenezer
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	career: Overseer, Kamerunga State Nursery, North Queensland; an assiduous collector of Australian plants. In May 1893 he went to New Guinea at the request of the Queensland Government to collect samples of sugar-canes for trial in Australia.¹ He made an earlier (Dec. 1892) attempt to collect sugar-cane varieties in Papua (Mabudauan, Samarai, Thursday I.), but the material was so thoroughly fumigated that not a single bud survived.⁴
	collections: During his New Guinea trip he made general, not extensive, botanical collections; they are incorporated in Herb. Brisbane [BRI]. He collected at least in Kwato Isl. (Samarai Distr.) and at Port Moresby (Papua).² Also some from Thursday Isl. (1893).³
	literature: (1) cf. List in Ann. Rep. Dept Agric. Brisbane 1893/94, p. 43. (2) cf. Journ. But. 58, 1920, p. 193; and Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 34, 1922, p. 49-51. (3) In F.M. Bailey: ‘A few words about the flora of the islands of Torres Straits and the mainland about Somerset’ (Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Sydney sess. 1898, p. 423-447). (4) Cf. Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. Brisbane 15, 1951, p. 37-38.