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UPWARDS of thirty years ago Mrs. Meredith gave the world a volume containing admirable coloured figures of a selection from the many beautiful plants and insects that inhabit her island home, Tasmania; and now, in the evening of a long life, she has travelled to the old country to publish a second volume, which is to be the last. Her purpose achieved, she “hopes to return and end her days among her children in that pleasant colony,” which has given a brighter home to so many of our kith and kin. Lovers of the beauties of Nature in this country will find much pleasure and instruction in this second volume from that talented lady's pen and pencil, and will be able thereby to form some conception of the totally different kind of vegetation from our own that clothes this remote southern island, as well as the great Australian country, for it is only a part of the same flora. To the colonists themselves the book will be even more attractive, as a means of becoming acquainted with the names and affinities of the beautiful objects with which they are surrounded. It will also, it is to be hoped, teach them to prize and preserve these rare and precious gifts. Like all true lovers of Nature, Mrs. Meredith deplores the wanton destruction of rare flowers near Hobart by thoughtless or greedy persons whose only aim seems to be quantity.
Bush Friends in Tasmania: Native Flowers, Fruits, and Insects, drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse.
By Louisa A. Meredith. Executed by Vincent Brooks, Day, and Son. (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891.)
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Bush Friends in Tasmania: Native Flowers, Fruits, and Insects, drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse. Nature 44, 517 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044517a0
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