Through tlio kind exertions of Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, and through the 
liberality of the Government of New South Wales, the publication of my 
work on the Australian Possil PI ora was called into existence, and I therefore 
tender to both my sinccrest thanks for this act of kindness. 
The lithographic plates were very fairly executed by the publishing 
firm of Theodor Pischcr, at Cassel, to whom also my best acknowledgments 
are due. 
The illustrations are copies of my origiual plates (but differently 
arranged) with a few additions. 
I have endeavoured to make the text as complete as possible and to 
bring it up to date, so far as all the various papers were accessible to me here ; 
I only hope that I have satisfied the expectations of the Government of New 
South Wales. 
Frag net 1887. 
Dn. OTTOKAR PEISTMANTEL. 
