168 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Pi— French, F., Junr. — " Observations on the flowering 

 times and habitats of some Victorian Orchids," (Vict. Nat., 

 xn, 31, 1895). The list comprises 72 species out of the 90 

 then (1895) recorded for Victoria chiefly in the Melbourne 

 district. A calendar for every month of the year is given 

 showing the orchids observed to have flowered in that 

 month. No years are given, so that the value of the list, 

 for phenological purposes, is not as complete as it other- 

 wise would have been. 



G.— Maplestone, O. M. — " Flowering times of Orchids," 

 (Vict. Nab., xn, 82). Mr. Maplestone supplements Mr. 

 French's list by records from a wider range in Victoria. 

 He also gives the months without the years, and thus it is 

 not a guide as to the compartive climatic conditions of any 

 particular year. 



H.— Maplestone, O. M. — "Calendars and the indexing of 

 Natural History observations," (ib., xn, 120). In this 

 paper the author explains that he has kept a diary, more 

 or less continuously, since 1861, and has many dated obser- 

 vations concerning Orchids (not published in the paper). 

 The "indexing " refers to his use of Todd's " Index Rerum" 

 a device which he used as an index to his diary. 



K.— " Notes on Ecalyptus trees from the point of view of 

 the bee-keeper," by J. H. Maiden, Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., 

 January, 1902. 



This compilation is useful only to show how irregular 

 are the flowering periods of some of our trees. Of course 

 " Stringybarks," "Box," etc., include more than one kind 

 of tree, but some of the trees, such as "Yellow Box " and 

 "Tallow Wood " certainly only include one kind. 



At my instigation the Under Secretary for Lands, in 1905 

 and 1908 requested the Foresters to make records of the 

 dates of the trees flowering in their respective districts, 



