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and will fill all orders for young trees for the island of Hawaii. 

 A new nursery is being started at Haiku, in charge of Forest 

 Ranger Tames Lindsay, to supply trees for Maui, and probably 

 at Kapaa a new nursery will soon be established to take care of 

 Kauai's demand for trees. The Government Nursery in Hono- 

 lulu will continue to supply the demand for trees on Oahu but 

 for Oahu only when shipped in soil. 



Provision is made in the rule for exceptional cases when it is 

 necessary to send a limited number of valuable or rare plants in 

 soil but only by a special permit and under very restrictive con- 

 ditions as to sterilized soil and plant quarantine. 



Rule XX is published in the By Authority pages of this issue. 



Book Review. 



students of natural history, together with all who are interested in an- 

 nals of Hawaii 's earlier civilization, are debtors to Mr. W. F. Wilson of 

 Honolulu for a book of 84 pages just published, entitled, ''David Douglas, 

 Botanist, at Hawaii." The work has been placed on sale at Thrum's. 



It is an attempt, the compiler explains in a prefatory note, to bring to- 

 gether, under one cover, some interesting particulars that have already been 

 published in different works — for the most part now out of print — regard- 

 ing the life of David Douglas, the intrepid Scottish botanical explorer and 

 mountain climber, and particularly that portion thereof which treats of his 

 two visits to the Hawaiian Islands. A few explanatory notes and illustra- 

 tions, it is mentioned, have been added by the compiler. 



Extracts from a brief memoir of the life of Douglas by Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, professor of botany in Glasgow University, form the 

 groundwork of the compilation, but facts gained by Mr. Wilson through 

 his own researches, including corrections of errors made by different au- 

 thors, which are interweaved in the eclectic subject matter or appear in 

 footnotes, add greatly to the value of the production. 



Including two jjortraits of Douglas and a picture of the tablet of his 

 memory set in the wall of Kawaiahao church, Honolulu, the book is em- 

 bellished with thirteen illustrations and six decorative tailpieces related to 

 the contents. A bibliography appended contains twenty-three titles of pub- 

 lications referring to Douglas. 



Unfortunately, on account of his untimely death on the island of Hawaii, 

 where on July 12, 1834, he was killed by a bullock in a wild cattle trap pit 

 into which he had fallen, David Douglas left few literary remains pertain- 

 ing to his botanical explorations here, the extent of which though doubtless- 

 ly great can only be surmised. His investigations in other fields, of which 

 the Northwest of America was an important one, he copiously journalized 

 besides contributing accounts of them to various periodicals conducted by 

 British scientific societies. 



Probably the last letter that he ever wrote to any of his friends in 

 Europe is one reprinted by Mr. Wilson, which Avas sent to Dr. Hooker from 

 Honolulu under date of May 6, 1834. In the book is a list of several 

 plants in the flora of Hawaii named for Douglas by some of his botanical 

 friends. One variety of the silver sword fern was originally among the 

 number but was afterward changed from Argyrophyton Douglasii to Argy- 

 roziphium Sandwicens. 



As readers of the Forester Avill remember, the Douglas fir of the North- 

 west keeps green the memory of the distinguished Scottish botanist whose 

 mangled body was buried in Kawaiahao churchyard, Honolulu, eighty-five 

 years ago. The memorial tablet upon that edifice was sent from England 

 by a contemporary scientist. It was intended for a tombstone but when it 



