Queensland Acclimatisation Society

Its primary interest was in the introduction of exotic plants, particularly tropical and sub-tropical, to Queensland, both for economic and ornamental purposes.

It imported plants that had commercial potential and conducted experiments to determine if they could be adapted to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate.

In that year, the Queensland Acclimatisation Society began importing cane from Mauritius and New Caledonia and distributing it to growers.

No buildings associated with the Queensland Acclimatisation Society remain extant at the Bowen Park site.

In March 1915, tenders were requested for the construction of a new cottage (extant but altered) including a "roomy office" for storing the society's books and papers.

The society contributed to making avocados, pecan nuts and grape fruit commercially viable crops in Queensland.

It is difficult to establish a direct link between the Acclimatisation society's work on pecan nuts and the present commercial crop.

However, the pecan nut trees at Lawnton are the only pre-World War II Acclimatisation Society plantings, known to be extant, that are related to commercial crops.