EDITORIAL PREFACE. 



Handbooks of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia, issued by the 

 British Science Guild (South Australian Branch). 



Recognising the need for a wider diffusion of accurate knowledge 

 of our Flora and Fauna, the Guild has undertaken the issue of a series 

 of handbooks. 



There is an admitted lack of inexpensive but accurate books dealing 

 with the plants and animals of South Australia, and it is felt that 

 the absence of such has been a real handicap to young Australia, and 

 so to the progress of Australian science. These volumes, which have 

 been planned to meet the want, are being prepared gratuitously by 

 South Australian biologists and geologists : they will be printed and 

 published by the State Government, and will be placed in all the 

 public schools, for the use of which they are being primarily written. 



