10 Botanical Exploration and Research. 
With the appearance of this work the gifted author sprang at once into the 
front rank of the floristic botanists of the day. The descriptions are wonder- 
fully accurate, the judgment in critical cases sound, and clerical errors are 
negligible. Perhaps the author might be accused of too great caution, but 
such an accusation is itself praise. 
c. From ı906 to the end of 1913. 
The appearance of the “Manual” gave a fresh impetus to research., The 
ormer collectors, their ranks increased by younger naturalists, enabled CHEESE- 
MAN almost yearly to bring out papers supplementary to his work; the number 
of ecological students also gradually increased. The Government employed 
L. CoCKAYNE to make a series of botanical surveys and the following reports 
'were the result: Kapiti Island (1907), Waipoua Kauri forest and Tongariro 
National Park (1908), Stewart Island (1909) and two on Sand-dunes (1909—11). 
The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury organised an expedition to the Lord 
Auckland and Campbell Islands and published a work in 2 volumes which. 
inter alia contains a full account of the botany of the Subantarctic botanical 
province, the article by CHEESEMAN on the affınities and history of the flora 
‚being of special merit. R. B. OLIVER, who with some companions, spent a 
year on the Kermadec Islands in order to study their natural history, wrote 
an admirable account of their vegetation and flora. Lang, D. L. POPPELWELL, 
PHILLIPS TURNER, B. C. AsTON, PETRIE, J. CROSBy-SMITH and H. CARSE 
 dealt respectively with the botany of the Spenser Mts.; certain parts of Stewart “ 
Island and the South Otago district; the Waimarino Bi the Tararua Mts.; 
& Mt. Hector and the denuded area of Central Otago; the Princess Mts. (Fjord 
r and Bes ur ae lists of Br were > wuhlähen by 
a Sad: nd RESET The Ti ce & i 
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