XXXVI HISTORY OF 
Mr. R. M. Laing, that of the Mount Arrowsmith district. The vegetation 
of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand (other than Campbell Island) 
was described in Volume I of the “ Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand,” 
1909. A series of parliamentary papers issued by the Lands Department 
covered botanical surveys of Kapiti Island, Tongariro National Park, 
Stewart Island, Waipoua Kauri Forest, and the sand-dune areas of New 
Zealand. An account of the coastal vegetation appeared in the ‘‘ Trans- 
actions of the New Zealand Institute,’ vol. 39. These studies in the 
ecological botany of New Zealand culminated in the issue of a volume in 
Engler and Drude’s “ Die Vegetation der Erde” in 1921. Dr. Cockayne’s 
book, entitled “The Vegetation of New Zealand,” formed No. XIV of the 
series, contained a general account of the vegetation of New Zealand and 
the outlying islands, together with a summary of the geographical rela- 
tionships of the flora, and was illustrated with sixty-five plates, in addition 
to text figures and maps. 
Besides publications of a technical nature, Dr. Cockayne has issued in 
book form popular accounts of the vegetation of New Zealand. His “ New 
Zealand Plants and their Story’ has passed through two editions, and a 
third is now in the Press. In this connection may also be mentioned his 
recently issued handbook “ The Cultivation of New Zealand Plants.” 
¥Other writers who have contributed to our knowledge of the plant forma- 
tions of New Zealand by publishing descriptions of vegetation are Mr. 
R. M. Laing, on Campbell Island (Subantarct. Is. N.Z.); Mr. E. Phillips 
Turner, on the Waimarino district (parliamentary paper); and Mr. D. L. 
Poppelwell, on the Garvie Mountains, Ruggedy Mountains, Codfish Island, 
and Breaksea Islands (Trans. N.Z. Inst.). My own papers on the Kermadec 
Islands (Trans. N.Z. Inst.) and White Island (Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot.) may be 
mentioned here. 
A volume by Hon. G. M. Thomson, issued under the title of “ A New 
Zealand Naturalist’s Calendar,’ contains many interesting observations on 
native plants, while a paper on the role of tree-ferns in the forest has been 
published by Miss A. Pope (N.Z. Jour. Sci. &jTech., vol. 6). 
Professor D. H. Campbell has published a general description of the 
vegetation of New Zealand from notes collected during a visit in 1922 
(Amer. Jour. Bot., vol. 10). 
Kcological papers of economic interest include a series by Dr. Cockayne 
on the montane tussock grasslands of New Zealand, being the results of 
systematic experiments (N.Z. Jour. Agr.) ; an article by Mr. A. H. Cockayne 
on the same subject (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 48); the series of papers on 
New Zealand grasslands, by Mr. E. Bruce Levy (N.Z. Jour. Agr.); and an 
account of the flax, Phormium tenar, by Mr. E. A. Atkinson (Dept. Agr. 
Bull. 95), | } 
PLANT ANATOMY. 
The period 1905-24 has been marked by the issue of a number of 
papers describing the minute structure of New Zealand plants. These are 
all of very great importance from an ecological standpoint, and in not a 
few cases are of great taxonomic value. Many of the papers are based on 
theses of University students. | 
Foremost in the matter of importance, both from an ecological and 
taxonomic point of view, is the series of papers on New Zealand Pterido- 
phytes, published by Rev. Dr. J. Holloway. The genus Lycopodium has 
