Robert Potter: (1831-1908) Irish-born author and clergyman, in Australia from early manhood, his sf novel The Germ Growers: An Australian Story of Adventure and Mystery was published in Australia as by Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham, the names of the protagonists, but in the UK as "edited by" Potter. A race of discarnate beings, denizens of the interplanetary "ether" capable of assuming human form, mind-controlling humans, and able to Teleport, invades Earth and sets up beachheads where they cultivate plague germs to be used on humanity, one beachhead is discovered in the Australian outback, with an Alien who calls himself Davelli in charge, and the adventures begin. (sf-encyclopedia.com)