offer the best field we can have for discussing and settling dispxited 

 questions whether of terminology or forest work. Hitherto they 

 have not been sufficiently utilised in this respect, the reason no 

 doubt being the natural reluctance one feels to deal as well as to 

 receive hard blows. But in the interests of science and of our 

 own special profession we must cease to be too thin-skinned. How 

 men of science in Great Britain can put up with, and do not mind 

 receiving, hard knocks will be seen at once on reference to any 

 number of the Journal " Nature." 



In conclusion I must apologise for the innumerable typographi- 

 cal errors with which this Draft bristles. Publishing it in the 

 manner already described, I could obviously avail myself only of 

 small local presses, possessing neither reader nor efficient foreman. 

 With the slender means at their command, they have nevertheless 

 performed their work extremely well, and I owe them my best 

 thanks for the patience with which they waited for " copy " when 

 my hands were full of other work. 



DEHKA DUN, ^ E. E. FERNANDEZ. 



The 19th November 1888. 



