EDITORIAL PREFACE. 
Handbooks of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia, issued hy 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 available for schools and the public generally. 
