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to foster the introduction and multiplication of industrial plants, 
as the continued acquisition and diffusion of foreign animals of 
utilitarian importance. 
Unquestionably also, the periodical issue of essays on animals 
and plants to be introduced or to be diffused, will give additional 
strength to the Society’s labours. 
Should, therefore, this small literary offer prove acceptable to the 
supporters of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society, then the writer 
would feel sufficiently encouraged to offer in a similar form,* a list of 
other plants, recommendable here for more general cultivation; and, 
although such indices only to some ■ stent contain original research, 
they are likely to bring together information, more condensed and 
more recent, than it would be attainable in costly or voluminous 
works of even several languages, and yet such treating perhaps only 
of countries with far narrower climatic zones than ours. 
Possibly this publication may aid us also to render known our 
colonial requirements thus far abroad, while it will offer likewise 
some information to speed interchanges. 
For our Industrial Museum and such similar institutions, as doubt¬ 
less erelong ou a limited scale will be connected with each Mechanics’ 
Institute, this unpretetisive treatise may help to explain the real 
wealth, which we possess in our unfortunately almost unguarded 
forests, or point out the manifold new treasures, which we should 
raise independently in our woodlands, while also these pages might 
stimulate both public and private efforts, to provide by timely thought¬ 
fulness those increased timber resources, without which the next 
generations of this laud can be neither hale nor prosperous. 
• I.—CONIFEROUS TREES. 
Araucaria Bidwilli,* Hook. 
Bunya Bunya. Southern Queensland. A tree 150 feet in height, with 
a fine grained, hard and durable wood; the seeds are edible. 
Araucaria Brasiliensis, A. Rich. 
Brazilian Pine. A tree, 100 feet high, producing edible seeds. 
Ought to be tried in our fern gullies. 
Araucaria Cookii, R. Br. 
In New Caledonia, where it forms large forests. Height of tree, 200 
feet. 
Araucaria Cunninghami,* Ait. 
Moreton Bay Pine.—East Australia, between 14° and 32° S. latitude. 
The tTee gets 130 feet high. The timber is used for ordiuary furniture. 
Araucaria cxcelsa,® R. Br. 
Norfolk Island Pine.— A magnificent tree, sometimes 220 feet high, 
with a stem attaining ten feet in diameter. The timber is useful for 
6hip-bnilding and many other purposes. 
* A short essay on such plants and trees as well was promulgated by the 
Philos. Society of Victoria IS58, pp. 93—105. 
