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Mr T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., and 
Dr L. Gockayne, F.R.S., Ph-D. 
Of Mr T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., it is not 
an easy matter to obtain from his ‘‘Manual]’’ 
any reference to himself which will assist 
in recording the great value of his services 
to botanists and those of the public who 
have had occasion to call upon him for 
information. He modestly says of himself 
in the preface to the ‘‘Manual’’: ‘I do not 
propose to say anything in regard to my 
own researches into the flora, beyond stat- 
ing that they have extended continuously 
from the year 1870 to the present time, and 
include an examination of almost the whole 
colony. from the Kermadec Islands and the 
North Cape to Otago. <A list of my papers 
o1 botanical subjects will be found in Mr 
Hamilton’s Biblicgraphy, Printed in Vol. 
XXXVI of the Transactions of the New 
Zealand Institute (pp. 542-72).” The 
Bibliography referred to shows that Mr 
Cheeseman had, prior to 1904, contributed 
to the Transactions no less than 43 articles 
on botanical matters. The information con- 
tained in these papers was the result of 
widespread travelling throughout the colony 
and in some of the outlying islands—the 
Three Kings and the Kermadecs,—and bears 
high testimony to the splendid work of Mr 
Cheeseman in the scientific realm which he 
has so long adorned. Of his “Manual of 
the Flora of New Zealand” it is hardly 
necessary for me to write. It is a text book 
of the very greatest value to anyone in this 
dominion who takes an interest in its 
botany, and no work of the kind has been, 
and continues to be, so largely consulted. 
The many additions that have been made 
to the flora) of the dominion since the 
“Manual’? was published have rendered a 
new edition necessary, and Mr Cheeseman 
has been engaged in the preparation of this 
for some time past. Its publication 15 
looked forward to with deep interest, and 
it will prove of great use to scores of people 
throughout the dominion who take practical 
interest in its flora. ‘The book will be a 
fitting copestone to the patient and valuable 
labours of a distinguished scientist, whose 
name will live for all time in the scientific 
