FOREWORD. 



I have taken advantage of the courtesy of this distin- 

 guished man but the cost of using the plates would have 

 defeated the main object I had in view, which is to make 

 the knowledge of the Eucalyptus accessible to the largest 

 possible number of enquirers. 



I have also received very valuable aid from Mr. J. 

 Ednie Brown, the prominent Australian Forester and 

 botanist, and from Mr. Walter Gill, the present Forest 

 Conservator of South Australia. The fine forest work in 

 this colony under Messrs. Brown and Gill offers a wide 

 field of knowledge to Eucalyptus planters. 



Prof. A. J. McClatchie, of the Throop Polytechnic 

 Institute of Pasadena, CaL, has given me specially valuable 

 assistance, and I take pleasure in speaking of the import- 

 ant aid he has rendered in this work. 



To many others I am much indebted for aid and infor- 

 mation. Amongst them I may mention Hon. Thos. F. 

 Bayard, now our ambassador to Great Britain, E. M. Shel- 

 ton, Instructor in Argiculture, Queensland, Messrs. Scharf 

 and Shorting, Pasadena, to Mr. Geo. S. Davis, publisher of 

 the Bulletin of Pharmacy, Detroit, Mich., and to Prof. Tom- 

 masi Crudelei. Prof. J. H. Maiden, of Sydney, who is the 

 authority on the chemistry of the Eucalyptus, has given 

 me important help in various directions. Prof. B. E. Fer- 

 non, Chief of the Division of Forestry at Washington, has 

 given me aid and comfort. The Rev. G. Montgomery, 

 Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, assisted me in ob- 

 taining the original data of the Tre Fontane experiments 

 for which I owe him much. Prof. S. M. Woodbridge, Ph. 

 D., Hon. Elwood Cooper, Mrs. Jennie C. Carr, together 

 with many more have rendered me valuable assistance. 

 Both our own Federal and all foreign officials appealed to 



