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to secure a perfect re-production of the drawings which 

 had been prepared ; and the work has been beautifully 

 executed, representing the leafage, flowers, and fruit, with 

 the organs delicately drawn and exquisitely coloured, 

 having been completed under the charge of Senor Don 

 Justo de Salinas, by whom the drawings were prepared. 



While this work was in progress, there was published by Sr. 

 Laguna a pamphlet, entitled Com/eras y Amentaceas Espanolos 

 Spanish Coniferse and Amentacese. In the preface 

 to this he intimates that the Forest-Flora Commission 

 had presented to the Minister of State a report in manu- 

 script, illustrated by drawings, of their work in regard to 

 conifers and amentuacese, in which details were given of 

 some species of special interest to forest engineers engaged 

 in sylviculture ; but not knowing what time might elapse 

 ere this should be published, be considered it might be 

 of use to some meanwhile in classifying species belonging 

 to these groups, the principal ones of Spanish trees, to 

 have this key, which was arranged dichotoniously. The 

 portion relating to Conifers had been published in 1874 

 in the Revista Forestal, Economica y Agricola, vol. VII., and 

 with some corrections and additions made to it it was 

 added now to a like key to the Amentaceae 



In 1870 and in 1872 had been published Re'sume's, the 

 former of the work done by the Commission in the years 

 1867 and 1868 ; the latter of this done in the years 1869 

 and 1870. 



In 1880 there was published by the same author, a paper 

 read at a Conference on Agriculture, held in theConservatorio 

 de Artes in Madrid on the llth April in that year, entitled 

 Plantas Cryptogamas, su importancia en la Agricultural 

 Crytogamic plants, and the importance of them in con- 

 nection with agriculture. In the following year was 

 published by him another monograph, Un Mesto Italiano 

 y varws Mes\,os Espannolas An Italian Oak, and sundry 

 Spanish Oaksj and in 1884 a paper entitled Caracteres 



