

2. 'Preface. 



SKVKRAI. factors were instrumental in bringing about the writing of this publication, and not the least 

 important of these is a desire to produce amongst Australians a higher appreciation of their own native 

 timbers in this one particular branch of Technology, viz., cabinet work and its allied trades. Another 

 was that some of these beautiful woods, owing to the rapid advance of the settler, are in jeopardy of being 

 exterminated altogether, and that by bringing these in this form before the commercial world, it is hoped 

 the various Forest rv Departments of the Commonwealth may be moved to set apart reserves for their 

 reafforestation before it is too late. 



a new field of work 

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Pages 65-90 and coloured plate for 

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1912. 



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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



To the following officers of the Museum my thanks are due for assistance rendered in the 

 preparation of this work: Messrs. C. Still, D. Cannon, and L. G. Irby. 



