vl NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. 
The book has been produced by direction of the 
Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, to whom 
my warmest thanks are here recorded, not merely for 
his Ministerial sanction for its production, but for the 
kindly interest he has taken in its preparation and for 
his many important suggestions. 
Let me take this opportunity of expressing my great 
obligation to the following gentlemen: Professor C. 
Chilton, D.Sc., C.M.Z.S., who assisted im reading the 
proofs and gave much welcome advice on certain topics ; 
Mr. H. Baillie, who prepared the exhaustive index— 
a wearisome task—for which assistance I cannot be 
sufficiently grateful; Mr. Esmond Atkinson, who drew 
several excellent text-figures; Major A. A. Dorrien 
Smith, D.S.O., Messrs. B. C. Aston, F.I.C., E. Bruce 
Levy, and C. E. Christensen, and the Board of Governors 
of the New Zealand Institute, who supplied photographs 
or half-tone blocks. | 
Finally, I must record my thanks to the Government 
Printer for the eminently satisfactory manner in which 
the book has been produced, as also to his staff, especially 
to the Reader, whose critical reading of the proofs— 
painstaking to the last degree—has been beyond praise. 
Wellington, N.Z., 14th August, 1919. me 
