PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. / Oli 



Owing to the enlightened policy of the Hon. William Patrick 

 Crick, Minister for Lands, who first gave me authorization, and 

 the Hon. Walter Bennett, Minister for Forestry, who has con- 

 tinued his support, I have made considerable headway with 

 quarto illustrations of the forest flora of New South Wales. It 

 is my desire to depict every tree in the State, and the beautiful 

 illustrations from Miss Flockton's pencil can now be reproduced 

 at a cheap rate as soon as it is desired to prepare the work for 

 publication. Previous enterprises of this sort ha"se resulted in 

 financial failure through the cost of reproduction, an error I am 

 determined shall not be repeated in the present case. Of this I 

 am certain, that a work like this would give an impetus to the 

 study of botany and forestry in this State, and also that the 

 moderate sum expended upon it will receive the unanimous 

 approval of all who are interested in diffusing a knowledge of the 

 trees of New South Wales It will also convince the public that 

 the Forest Department is now alive to a very obvious duty. 



While glad of the opportunity of being able to carry out the 

 work I have just indicated, I hope at the proper time to suggest 

 the issue of another work of undoubted practical value. I refer 

 to a book of photographic rep)roductions of the forests of New 

 South Wales, depicting not only characteristic individual trees, 

 but also typical forest scenes. The growth and' variation of the 

 same species in different localities and under different conditions 

 could be shown, and if the subjects were carefully selected and 

 judiciously described, such a work would be of immense value in 

 advertising and creating an intelligent interest in our forest 

 resources. Knowledge of our forests is possessed by a very small 

 percentage of the community, and I am confident that suitable 

 pictorial illustration would be a potent factor in dispersing that 

 ignorance. 



5. ^Botanical Survey of New Soupii Wales. 



i. A botanical map (Plate xliii.). 



a. Introductory. 



Reverting {^upra, p. 753) to my suggestion for a botanical 



survey, I may state that during the five years that have elapsed 



