• The Queensland Acclimatisation Society (QAS) was an acclimatisation society based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia which operated from 1862 to 1956...
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    Acclimatisation Society gardens is a heritage-listed botanic garden at Bray Road, Lawnton, City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. It was added to...
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  • Acclimatisation societies were voluntary associations, founded in the 19th and 20th centuries, that encouraged the introduction of non-native species...
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    after Queensland Governor Sir George Ferguson Bowen. The locality of Mayne is named after alderman Patrick Mayne. The Queensland Acclimatisation Society occupied...
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    and is a fire hazard. In the Australian state of Queensland, the Queensland Acclimatisation Society introduced Guinea grass to 22 locations between 1865...
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    City Botanic Gardens (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    performed by the Botanic Gardens was being carried out by the Queensland Acclimatisation Society at Bowen Park. The Herbarium and Botanic Library were moved...
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    Joseph William Sutton (category Royal Society of Queensland)
    Transactions of the Queensland Philosophical Society. Queensland Museum. Brisbane. Editor. (2015). Queensland Acclimatisation Society. John Oxley Library...
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    Brisbane Showgrounds (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    part of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society's grounds. This Society, established in 1862 to promote the introduction, acclimatisation, propagation...
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    Woody Island Lighthouses (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    for the Queensland Acclimatisation Society. This reserve was in place until 1959. During their time of association on the Island, the Society introduced...
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    Bowen Park, Brisbane (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1863 to 1950s. It was also known as the Acclimatisation Society Gardens. It was added to the Queensland Heritage...
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    Old Museum Building, Brisbane (category Bowen Hills, Queensland)
    was completed in August 1891 The land had been used by the Queensland Acclimatisation Society from 1863-1875. The new exhibition building was designed by...
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    Gallop Botanic Reserve (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    new Department worked closely with the privately-supported Queensland Acclimatisation Society (based in Brisbane), and established the Kamerunga State Nursery...
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  • Brisbane. He was also a keen botanist and trustee of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society. Hall married Anna Tranberg in Brisbane in 1884. He was survived...
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    Laurel Bank Park (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    importation of exotic plant species to Queensland, attested by the establishment of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society in 1862 as well as several botanic...
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    Rockhampton Botanic Gardens (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    Botanic Gardens contributed material for the garden. The Queensland Acclimatisation Society was also active in providing plant stock and seed material...
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    Hyrcanian Forests. In New Zealand, red deer were introduced by acclimatisation societies along with other deer and game species. The first red deer to...
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    Leslie Corrie (category Colony of Queensland people)
    president of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society. He was involved in introducing and trialling many fruits and plants into Queensland, and is credited...
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    Jimna Single Men's Barracks (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    native timbers at its current rate was unsustainable. The Queensland Acclimatisation Society and sawmillers such as William Pettigrew were among those...
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    Queens Gardens, Townsville (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    commercial crops in Queensland, supported the work of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society and was instrumental in establishing the Queensland network of botanic...
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    Avenue: Mango trees which were planted over 100 years ago by the acclimatisation society  Home located on Tina Avenue which was one of the original farm...
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    Lewis Adolphus Bernays (category Colony of Queensland people)
    second year of existence. He was one of the founders of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, holding positions of Councillor, Honorary Secretary, Vice-President...
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    was made to introduce this species to New Zealand by the Otago Acclimatisation Society in the late 1890s. It is quite common in aviculture worldwide,...
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    Sunnyside Sugar Plantation (category Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register)
    It is also known that local bank manager, member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society and trustee of the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, William Fullerton...
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    Phalaenopsis, phenylpropanoid enzymes are enhanced in the process of plant acclimatisation at different levels of photosynthetic photon flux. The genus Phalaenopsis...
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    George Bennett (naturalist) (category Fellows of the Linnean Society of London)
    China Through Western Eyes Acclimatisation: its eminent adaptation to Australia  (1 ed.). Melbourne: Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. 1862. The standard...
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    William Pettigrew (politician) (category Members of the Queensland Legislative Council)
    Committee the Queensland Acclimatisation Society (a life member) List of mayors and lord mayors of Brisbane List of tramways in Queensland Toowong Cemetery...
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    New Zealand by local Acclimatisation Societies of Otago and Canterbury in the 1860s, with the Wellington Acclimatisation Society releasing 260 birds in...
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    century, as European colonisation took place, acclimatisation societies were established. The societies introduced a large number of species with no use...
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    thanks to the work of acclimatisation committees. By the 1920s, common starlings were widespread throughout Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales, but...
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  • Institute in Melbourne. In 1874, he joined the Acclimatisation Society in Brisbane . He gifted the society with 4 terracotta statues representing the seasons...
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