BOTANICAL DISCOVERY. XE 
in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, number nearly a 
hundred and fifty. His most important completed work is “ The 
Forest Flora of New Zealand,” issued in 1889. Its primary object was 
to diffuse a knowledge of the forest resources of the colony and to describe 
the chief methods of timber working and conversion. It contains 
much information on the economic value and uses of the New Zealand 
timbers, together with descriptions of the species, and is illustrated 
with 150 plates. In 1894 he was commissioned by the New Zealand 
Government to prepare a Flora of the colony, a work for which he had 
long been collecting material, and for which his wide personal knowledge 
of the vegetation of the country gave him exceptional qualifications. 
He entered upon the work with characteristic energy and ardour: 
but, unfortunately, his health gradually failed, and after several serious 
illnesses he died in March, 1897. That portion of his work which was 
in a sufficiently complete state at the time of his death, comprising 
the Polypetale, and the Monopetale as far as the Composit, was issued 
from the Government Printing Press in 1899. Although printed 
without the advantage of the author’s supervision, and without the 
introductory and supplementary matter usually given in such publi- 
cations, it shows very clearly the loss which botanical science has 
suffered through his decease, and all students will regret that he did 
not live to complete the work for which he had made so many pre- 
parations. 
I do not propose to say anything in regard to my own researches 
into the flora, beyond stating that they have extended continuously 
from the year 1870 to the present time, and include an examination 
of almost the whole colony, from the Kermadec Islands and the North 
Cape to Otago. A list of my papers on botanical subjects will be 
found in Mr. Hamilton’s Bibliography, printed in Vol. xxxvi. of the 
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (pp. 342-72). 
In the years 1874 and 1875 Dr. Sven Berggren, of the University 
of Lund, Sweden, made an extended visit to New Zealand, travelling 
through the greater portion of both Islands, and making large col- 
lections, especially of cryptogams. The new species of flowering- 
plants were described and beautifully illustrated in a memoir published 
in 1877 in the Proceedings of the University of Lund. The Alg@ have 
been worked out by Dr. Nordstedt and the late Professor J. G. Aghard, 
while scattered memoirs relating to other orders of cryptogams have 
been published from time to time by Dr. Berggren himself. 
From 1875 to the present time many important contributions 
to our knowledge of the flora of the colony have been made by Mr. 
D. Petrie, formerly Chief Inspector of Schools for Otago, and now 
holding a similar position in Auckland. During a residence of more 
than twenty years in Otago he sedulously investigated the vegetation 
of the eastern, central, and southern portions of the province, ascending 
many of the mountains, and forming large collections, especially 
