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Bibliography, Australian. 
(a) In the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania there Were 
recorded for many years phenological observations in regard to plants (chiefly Cultivated 
exotics) in the Botanic (Jardens at Hobart. I do not know of any other systematic 
records of the same kind in Australia. 
(6) Haviland, Edwin. Beginning Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xi, 1049 (1886), 
Mr. Edwin Haviland has a series of papers entitled " Flowering Seasons of Australian 
Plants," being a list of plants in the Sydney district in flower during specified months. 
There were eight papers in all, and the last was in 1888. 
(c) Prince, J. E. " Phenology and Rural Biology." (Viet. Nat., viii, 119 (1891). 
A useful paper of a general character, drawing attention to the desirability of encouraging 
such observations in Victoria. 
(d) The statement is made, Ib., viii, 126, " previous phenological reports have 
been published by the Astronomer's Department " (Mr. Ellery's). On inquiry of the 
Government Astronomer at Melbourne, Mr. Baracchi writes, under date 20th October, 
1908 : " So far as I am aware; no Phenological Reports have ever been published by 
this observatory." 
(e) French, F., junr. " Observations on the flowering times and habitats of 
some Victorian Orchids " (Viet. Nat., xii, 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 otherwise would have been. 
(/) Maplestone, C. M. " Flowering Times of Orchids" (Viet. Nat., xii, 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 
comparative climatic conditions of any particular year. 
(</) Maplestone, C. M. " Calendars and the Indexing of Natural History Observa- 
tions " (76., xii, 120). In this paper the author explains that he has kept a diary, more 
or less continuously, since 1861, and has many dated observations 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. 
(h) " Notes on Eucalyptus 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," &c., 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, and no doubt in time valuable data will be accumulated from this source 
(Papers 05/2,070 and 08/4,192). 
