INTRODUCTION. 
In the present Part will be found a number of titles of papers bearing on 
the vegetable food substances of the Aborigines. Under this heading the 
reader may profitably consult the late Mr. A. Thozet’s List of some of the 
Loots and Fruits used as Vegetable Food by the Aborigines of Northern 
Queensland)^ Mr. P. M. Bailey’s Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Fxgediiion^- 
more particularly for the native names used in the Cairns District ; the 
A aluablc Avork on the Useful Native Flants of Australia compiled by Mr. J. 
H. Maiden, brimming over Avith information ; the same Author’s Useful 
Australian Flants, a series of papers appearing in the N. S. Wales Agricul- 
tural Gazette, in AYliich the native names of the plants and timbers described 
are gh^en, chiefly those met aa ith in N. S. Wales and Queensland ; and his 
Bibliography of Australian Bconomic Botany , Fart J,® containing references 
to allied literature, and abstracts of the same. Another interesting paper by 
]\tr. Maiden refers to the vegetable Fish-poisons of the Australian Aborigines,^ 
used by them in their piscatorial operations. 
Information of an equally interesting nature may be gathered on the 
suliject of the native names of indigenous Avoods and their uses by consulting 
the list of Queensland Woods, originally collected by Mr. "Walter Hill, &c.,^ 
and exhibited at the London International Exhibition of 1872; the names of 
Different Woods, Sfc., used by the Yarra Natives for Weap)ons and Imple- 
ments,^ collected by Mr. C. lAaltcr, identified by Sir Y. von Mueller, P’.ll.S., 
and exhibited at the Intercolonial Exhiliition of Australasia, held in Melbourne 
in 18fiG-67 ; and lastly, the Catalogue of the Indigenous Woods contained in 
the Queensland Court, Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886,'’ by Mr. E. 
M. Bailey. The Aboriginal names of our Wattles can be ascertained by 
referring to Mr. J. II. Maiden’s Wattles and Wattle-barks, 
* Official Record Intercol. Exhib. Australasia, Melbourne, 186G-67 [1867], p. 259. ^ Dept. Agriculture, 
Queensland. Report by the Govt. Sci. Exped. Bellenden-Ker Range, &c., 1880, p. 29. ’ N. S. AA'ales Tech. 
Mus. Series, pp. xii and 696 (8vo., London and Sydney, 1889). ■* Vol. IV, 189.3, Pt. 8, p. 601, et wq. * N. S. 
AA^ales Tech. Education Series, No. 10, pp. 61 (8vo., Sydney, 1892. By Authority). “ N. S. AA'ales Agric. 
Gazette, 1894, A^, Pt. 5, p. 470. ~ Cat. Objects Exhib. Queensland Annex, Internat. Exhib. 1872 (London), 
p. 107. “ Official Record Intercol. Exhib. Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-67 [1867], p. 225. ® Pj). viii and 86 
(8vo., Brisbane, 1886). N. S. AA^ales Tech. Education Series, No. 6, 1890, pp. vii and 41 (8vo., Sj'dney, 1890, 
By Authority). 
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