George Caley was an English botanist and explorer, active in Australia for the majority of his career.
18 Facts About George Caley
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George Caley started learning botany by studying Botanical arrangement by William Withering.
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George Caley changed his job to that of a weaver in order to allow himself to spend more time with his associate in Manchester School of Botanists which consist of John Mellor, James Crowther, and John Dewhurst.
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George Caley was given a free passage to Sydney aboard the Speedy, where he arrived on 15 April 1800.
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George Caley was paid weekly wage of 15 shillings, was allowed rations by the government and he was given a cottage at Parramatta.
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George Caley was assisted by Daniel Moowattin an Aboriginal man of the Darug people.
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George Caley sent many botanical and other specimens to Banks and his letters kept Banks informed of the general conditions of the colony as well as scientific matters.
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George Caley was the first to make a serious effort to study the Eucalyptus.
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In 1801 George Caley went with Lieutenant James Grant to Western Port and in 1804 he gave King a long report on "A journey to ascertain the Limits or Boundaries of Vaccary Forest".
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George Caley was able to report on the wild cattle, which he found considerably increased in numbers.
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George Caley managed to reach and ascend a mountain he named Mount Banks.
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George Caley was homesick for England and decided to return to England.
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George Caley returned to England in 1810 and in 1816 was appointed curator of the botanic gardens in St Vincent, West Indies.
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George Caley resigned from this position in December 1822 and was back in England in the following May George Caley died on 23 May 1829.
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George Caley had married in 1816 but his wife predeceased him without children.
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George Caley was a good worker, a skilful and accurate botanist and he was thoroughly honest.
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George Caley did not publish any works, but his collections did much to spread a knowledge of Australian plants in the early years of the nineteenth century.
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George Caley is recognised in several place names, including a Reserve name and bushland pavilion name at Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden in St Ives, and in the orchid genus Caleana and the species Grevillea caleyi, Viola caleyana, Banksia caleyi, and Eucalyptus caleyi.