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how to quote references, and, where extracts from originals are cited, such should clearly 

 show, by the use of inverted commas, the precise words to be attributed to the original 

 author. Another matter, and this is worthy of attention by the editors of Australian 

 scientific publications — a uniform method of citation of scientific serials should be agreed 

 to by them, acting under the authority of the councils of the several Societies. There 

 is not always clearness as to the significance of Proceedings, Journal, Transactions, and 

 the pernicious habit of having a pagination different in reprints from that of the original 

 volumes from which they were taken, is not entirely stamped out. 



Science is truth, and carelessness and false quotations are not truth, and therefore 

 not contributions to science. 



My own association with the genus began in an accidental way, and arose out of 

 the unsatisfactory and even contradictory statements which I found current in regard 

 to Eucalyptus timbers, a collection of which was got together by me in my capacity of 

 Curator of the Technological Museum of New South Wales. (See a reference in 

 Part LIII, p. 129.) Under works containing partial bibliographies of Eucalyptus may 

 be cited my " A Bibliography of Australian Economic Botany," Technical Education 

 Series, No. 10 (Sydney, 1892). Eucalyptus references will be found under : " General," 

 especially p. 4; " Eucalyptus Oils and Eucalyptus in General," pp. 25-34; " Kinos," 

 pp. 39,40; "'Eucalyptus Mannas and Lerp," pp. 41-43; " Timbers," pp. 45-52. The 

 following articles in my " Forest Flora of New South Wales " contain bibliographies 

 of Eucalyptus more or less useful :— " Australian Manna," Part LXIII; "Honey 

 Plants," Part LXIV; "Insects and Timber-trees," Parts LXV and LXVI; "A 

 Tentative Bibliography of Eucalyptus Oil," Part LXVII ; "The Cultivation of 

 Eucalypts in Countries outside Australia," Part LXVITI. 



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