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through numerous sabbbicmsioc, will find in it a volume easily 
accessible ; and as the author has spent ten years in cultivating and 
establishing Eucalyptus plantations, his remarks as to the species 
which flourished or. otherwise, and the eh! details which 
supplied as the outcome of his own experience, should make his 
work of value to all who are interested in the planting of Eucalypts. 
Whether or not Mr. de Noter i is aware of the Seige bulletins 
P 
English-speaking people they specially appeal, for in them they 
have in their own language-a valuable record of facts relating to 
the Eucalyptus, mainly as grown in the United States, which shon 
species and the sites and climates best Taaetal for them, remains to 
one. 
Many allusions to the amelioration of the hygienic conditions of 
diskriats where the Hucalyptus has been planted are made by Mr. 
de Noter, and in this direction, we are inclined to think, he claims 
far too much for it, and in his enthusiasm overlooks some well- 
appears to have been done in Algeria in improving the climate of 
localities where malaria was often encountered, but whether the 
habitable an Malt to In ete res he s ever is 
unknown. It certainly should be if the sega oi is performing 
the functions claimed for it by some writers. t Professor Liver- 
sidge, formerly of the Ovens of Sydney, an drawn attention 
to the fact that for many years fevers have prevailed with great 
intensity in the Eucalyptus forests of their native land. With refer- 
ence to the question of planting Hwcalyptus in order to improve. 
the hygienic conditions of certain localities, the article which 
appeared in the Kew Bulletin, 1903, pp. 1-10, should be con- 
gener 
, apart from this, the genus Eucalyptus is in many ways emi- 
ae important. For timber, tanning material, and oil, it becomes 
more and more valuable. Quite recently (see ature, ce 
p- 584), Mr. R. T. Baker, Curator of the Technological ‘Mus 
Sydney, who, in collaboration with Mr. H. G. Smith, vrablislaedl i in 
1902 an admirable account of the genus, dealing especially with its 
essential oils, informed Sir William Thiselton-Dyer that phellandrene 
oils—the term applied by chemists to oils which have been discarded 
owing to the adoption in Australia of the British Pharmacopoeia 
standard, which requires that all eucalyptus-oil offered for sale 
should contain not less than 50 per cent. of eucalyptol—for a time 
