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benefactors abroad, who may wish to let us participate in their 

 treasures of plants a more exact indication of our varied climatic 

 zones, it was found expedient to append to this Record a very 

 succinct Meteorologic Schedule. Space did not admit of an 

 enumeration of the many works of different nations, which may 

 be consulted with advantage for following up the indications 

 now given, but a list of the principal publications will be prepared 

 for the supplement promised. It should however be stated, and 

 this with regret, that the new work on vegetable industrial pro- 

 ductions, published very recently by Mr. J. Smith of Kew, and 

 resting largely on the notes of the late Alexander Smith, derived 

 from the collections of Hooker's Museum, did not yet reach this 

 country. Notes may hereafter also be added, distinguishing 

 those plants, which give an immediate return in one season, and 

 those, which produce their yield only in variously extended 

 periods. Likewise might be discriminated between those plants, 

 from which commercial raw products are obtained, and those 

 which require costly machinery or toilsome application, to perfect 

 the mercantile article. The brief chemical notes are largely 

 derived from Professor Wittstein's " Chernische Analyse von 

 Pflanzentheilen," of which important work with the author's 

 friendly concession a translation by the writer is early to appear. 

 By these means industrial enquiry may here also be advanced, 

 modern therapeutic for instance depending often with far more 

 exactness on alkaloids or other chemically defined substances, 

 than on the administration of a plant as a whole. In conclusion 

 the writer trusts, that by the issue of these pages our trans- 

 oceanic interchanges may become extended, and the vegetable 

 treasures of distant countries may be rendered more extensively 

 our own, while some slight advantage may also arise from these 

 uupretensive data to countries endowed with climatic regions 

 not dissimilar to those of Victoria, 



