The cover has significant shelf wear but the contents are in Very Good Condition.
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FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION Some years ago Mr. W. D. Francis and myself started a work on the rain-forest ("scrub") trees of subtropical Eastern Australia and commenced a series of articles in the "Queensland Agricultural Journal," the idea being to obtain blocks so that something could be brought out later in book form at a comparatively cheap rate. From the commencement, however, due principally to pressure of other work on my part, the articles were very largely the work of Mr. Francis, and after a few had been published I withdrew, leaving the field entirely to him. The author has spent many years botanising in New South Wales and Queensland, and, before his appointment as Assistant Government Botanist of Queensland, lived for about ten years at Kin Kin, one of the richest rain-forest belts in subtropical Australia. He has always had an especial fondness for the rain-forest flora. He has an intimate field knowledge of the trees of which he writes, and I do not know anybody better fitted to write a work of this type. A distinctive feature in the work is that the descriptions are all original; in some cases they have been drawn up from living material, in other cases from the material in the Queensland Herbarium. The book must make a strong appeal to botanists, foresters, and that ever-growing circle of Australians who take a general interest in trees and, in fact, all that pertains to plant life. C. T. WHITE, Government Botanist, Brisbane, Queensland.
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