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RELATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS: 
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DELIVERED BY 
Baron Ferd, von Mueller, C.M.G., M.D, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
(Government Botanist for Victoria, and Director of the Botanic Gardens of 
Melbourne), 
On the 22d of June, 1871. 
“ The toils of science swell the wealth of art.’’ 
BuULWEB Lytton, from Schiller. 
Strange as it may appear, an impression seems to 
be prevailing in these communities that our forests 
have to serve_no other purposes but to provide wood 
for our immediate and present wants, be it fuel or 
timber. For even after the warning of climatic 
changes, and after the commencing scarcity of wood, 
no forest administration, at least none adequate or 
regularly organized, has been initiated in any portion 
of Australia; and thus the forests, even in districts 
already very populous, remain almost unguarded, 
become extensively reduced, and in some localities 
are already annihilated ; indeed, the requirements of 
the current time alone are kept in view. Under such 
circumstances it cannot be surprising that neither an 
