144 EEV. W. WOOLLS, PH.D., F.L.S., ON THE 



Proportion of disii-ibution tliroiigh the respective colonial ter- 

 ritories : — 



Per cent. 



In West Australia 40-6 



„ South Australia . . , . . , . . 21-8 



,, Tasmania .. .. .. .. .. l]-6 



,, Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 "6 



„ Kew South Wales 37-2 



,, Queensland . . . . . . . . . . 42'9 



,, North Australia .. .. .. .. 22"5 



Of the total number, 7,588 species are endemic in Continental 

 Australia and Tasmania; therefore 1,433 or 15"8 per cent, extend 

 also to other countries. Of these 166 are found in Europe, 1,057 

 in Asia, 531 in Africa, 323 in America, 638 in Polynesia, 350 in 

 New Zealand. 



Species added since the publication of the first Census of 

 Plants, 375, since the issue of the second Ge^isus, 182, irrespective 

 of some systematic changes or reductions. 



Geographic entries added since the issue of the second Census, 

 555. 



The total of the vascular indigenous species of all Australia will 

 in all probability finally prove to be less than 10,000. 



The deepest impression which such calculations will probably 

 make on readers, may be caused by the amazing endemism, 

 and should that startling emotion be merely ephemeral ? The 

 generation of the sturdy and entei'prising founders of these 

 colonies has almost passed away. Their descendants should love 

 the flowers of their native country, should prevent defacing or 

 demolition of even the last vestiges of the pristine vegetation, 

 sliould in a patriotic spirit reserve from alienation commensurate 

 areas wherever the sylvan or floral traits display the most marked 

 features, and should thus seek to deserve from future beholders 

 some feelings of admiration for providing with the loftiest of fore- 

 thoughts the purest of pleasures. 



Concerning the sanitary effects of the Eucalypts, dwelt on by 

 the departed essayist, a veiy extensive article fi'om my pen was fur- 

 nished to the Sydney ^[edical Gazette. The successive international 

 Exhibitions since 1855 have brought forward gradually a large 

 mass of information on the utilitarian aspect of the Australian 

 vegetation, and in his position as a Commissionei', even as far back 

 as forty years ago, it fell also to the share of the writer to advance 

 these interests by original efibrts. From various sources in all our 

 colonies, through the successive reports, accumulated technical 

 knowledge, which could only to a limited extent be given in such a 

 juanual as the Select Plants for Industrial Cidturo and Natnralisa- 

 tion, of which the ninth edition (of those in the English language) 

 will early pass through the ])ve8s. Mr. J. H. ^laiden, the curator 



