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the summit of Mount William the Fourth, certainly one of the loftiest among the Australian Alps, 

 Supposing these mountains should somewhere rise to the elevation of perpetual snow, the extent of this 

 latter Class will, of course, be considerably increased. At all events, it is certain that the numberless peaks 

 and rocky slopes of this chain must yield a great accession to the New Holland Flora, even supposing 

 that there should be no great novelty in the genera and species of the plants which grow there." 



(Hooker's " London Journal of Botany," vol. 2, pp. 135-140, 1843.) 



Mitchell, T. L. — " Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia," 

 London, 1838 (2nd edition, 1849). The first expedition was northerly and included 

 Valley of the Hunter, Liverpool Plains, the Peel, Namoi, Gwydir, &c, in 1831-32. 

 Then we have an account of the expedition to explore the course of the River Darling 

 in 1835. In vol. ii we have the expedition to the rivers Darling and Murray in the 

 year 1836. The Lachlan and Murrumbidgee were more or less explored, and " Australia 

 Felix " (the modern Victoria) was traversed nearly as far as the South Australian border. 

 The Grampians were discovered. Both volumes contain much information valuable 

 to the botanist. 



Backhouse, James. — 1. " Extracts from the letters of , now engaged in 



a religious visit to Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales . . ." (3rd edition, 

 1838). The letters are in five Parts, and date from 1831 to 1837. 



2. " A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies " (1843). This work 

 arises out of the series of trips referred to in the preceding work. Backhouse was a 

 good botanist, and his notes are often valuable, e.g., the measurements in Tasmania 

 of the gigantic Stringybark (E. obliqua) trees, the largest being 55 feet in circumference 

 (p. 120). 



Fitzgerald, R. D., 1882.— The late R. D. Fitzgerald made a slight attempt to 

 divide New South Wales in accordance with its botanical features (Linn. Soc, Lond., 

 1882; Abstract in Journ. Bot., XX, 96), but he did not take cognizance of Eucalyptus. 

 His divisions were — 



1. That of the sandstone, or poor country, represented by the Proteacece, Epaeridece, and Xanthorrhcea. 



2. Eastern slopes of coast range represented by Urticece and Pahnece. 



3. Cold mountain lands represented by Doryphora, Filices, and Myrtacem. 



4. Interior plains represented by Chenopodiacece and Composites. 



Maiden, J. H. — 1. "Notes on Ringbarking and Sapping; based on Foresters' 

 Reports," collected by J.H.M., Agric. Gaz., N.S.W., Jan., 1894, pp. 14-39. In this 

 paper I used the provisional divisions (N.S.W.) : — 



1. North Coast. 



2. Central Coast. 



3. South Tableland and South Coast. 



4. North Tableland. 



5. Dry plain country mainly. 



6. Murrumbidgee and Murray, 



and the trees referred to comprised a large number of Eucalypts. 



