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ed. Nevertheless, this list is far from claiming com- 
pleteness, either as a specific index or as a series of 
notes on the principal technologie applicability of the 
trees most accessible. Indeed, it may be regarded 
simply as a precursor of larger essays, such as the in- 
tended forest administration will gradually call forth. 
Meanwhile, however, this brief explanatory catalogue 
may facilitate locally that information which hitherto 
was afforded by the author’s correspondence chiefly. 
It seemed beyond the scope of this writing to tabu- 
late the trees here enumerated, in reference to climat- 
ic regions. The inhabitant of colder and moister 
mountains in this colony, or the settler in the hotter 
and more arid tracts of country, can readily foresee, 
from the brief geographic notes given with each tree, 
which kind should be chosen for the spot selected by 
him for wood - culture ; but if doubts in this respect 
should arise, the needful advice will readily be offer- 
ed by the writer. 
Though this list was originally prepared and allud- 
ed to as an appendage to a lecture* recently delivered 
at the Melbourne Industrial Museum, I was honored 
by my colleagues of the Council of the Acclimation 
Society in their giving publicity to thisdocument along 
with their last annual report, the Society being quite 
as anxious to foster the introduction and multiplica- 
tion of industrial plants as the continued acquisition 
and diffusion of foreign animals of utilitarian impor- 
tance. 
Unquestionably, also, the periodical issue of essays 
on animals and plants, to be introduced or to be dif- 
* The Application of Phytology to the Industrial Purposes of Life, 
