INTRODUCTION. 



In submitting now the first portion of this monography to the public, the author 

 ventures to express a hope, that the importance of the Eucalypts, whether viewed in 

 their often unparalleled celerity of growth among hardwood-trees, or estimated in 

 their manifold apphcabihties to the purposes of industrial life, or contemplated as 

 representing among them in aQ-overtowering height the loftiest trees in Her Majesty's 

 dominions, will be still more deservedly recognized by the perusal of these unpre- 

 tensive pages both here and elsewhere. 



Melbourne, Easter 1879. 



