4 A NATURALIST IN TASMANIA 



are stimulating the work of fellow naturalists 

 in a land of inexhaustible interest and natural 

 riches. 



I should be at a loss to say how much in these 

 pages is due to my own observations, and how 

 much to the suggestions which I have gleaned 

 from the conversations and writings of such 

 Australian naturalists as Professor Baldwin Spen- 

 ser of Melbourne, Professor Haswell of Sydney, 

 Mr. Hedley and Mr. Goddard of Sydney, Mr. 

 Twelvetrees of Launceston, and Mr. Rodway of 

 Hobart ; but I am quite certain that I have 

 learnt more from them than I could ever have 

 the wit to put into a book. To Mr. Rodway is 

 due the merit of whatever is sound in my account 

 of the botanical features of Tasmania, and my 

 walks and expeditions with him will always live 

 in my memory as the most pleasant and valuable 

 part of my Australian experiences. 



Of the many books on Tasmania which I have 

 consulted, I am perhaps most indebted to Mr. Ling 

 Roth's Aborigines of Tasmania, to Mr. Backhouse 

 Walker's historical essays entitled Early Tasmania, 

 and published by the Royal Society of Tasmania, 

 to Mr. Rodway' s Tasmanian Flora, to numerous 

 papers by Mr. Charles Hedley, dealing with the 

 problem of the lost Antarctica, and to Mr. R. M. 

 Johnston's Geology of Tasmania, In Launceston 

 I received much help from Mr. Scott, Mr. Petterd, 

 and Mr. Alan Slater ; and I must not forget to 

 thank Mr. Wertheimer, the Secretary of the 



