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benefactors abroad, who may wisb to let us participate in their 
treasures of plants a more exact indication of our varied climatic 
zones, it was found expedient to append to this Eecord a very 
succinct Meteorologic Schedule. Space did not admit of an 
enumeration of the many worlds of different nations, which may 
be consulted with advantage for following up the indications 
now given, but a list of the principal publications will be prepared 
for the supplement promised. It should however be stated, and 
this with regret, that the new v/ork on vegetable industrial pro- 
ductions, published very recently by Mr. J. Smith of Kew, and 
resting largely on the notes of the late Alexander Smith, derived 
from the collections of Hooker’s Museum, did not yet reach this 
country. Hotes may hereafter also be added, distinguishing 
those plants, which give an immediate return in one season, and 
those, which produce their yield only in variously extended 
periods. Likewise might be discriminated between those plants, 
from which commercial raw products are obtained, and those 
which require costly machinery or toilsome application, to perfect 
the mercantile article. The brief chemical notes are largely 
derived from Professor Wittstein’s “ Chemische Analyse von 
Pfianzentheilen,” of which important work with the author’s 
friendly concession a translation by the writer is early to appear. 
By these means industrial enquiry may here also be advanced, 
modern therapeutic for instance depending often with far more 
exactness on alkaloids or other chemically defined substances, 
than on the administration of a plant as a whole. In conclusion 
the writer trusts, that by the issue of these pages our trans- 
oceanic interchanges may become extended, and the vegetable 
treasures of distant countries may be rendered more extensively 
our own, while some slight advantage may also arise from these 
unpretensive data to countries endowed with climatic regions 
not dissimilar to those of Victoria. 
