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THERE is nothing absolutely new to announce concerning the flora of this remote islet; but what has been published is in the form of Government reports, which have a comparatively restricted circulation, and many persons who would be interested in their contents are unaware of their existence. And even when one knows of the existence of such reports, it is often difficult to procure them. Through the intermediary of Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, the library of the Royal Gardens, Kew, has just received a copy of a report on the state and prospects of Lord Howe Island, with a number of photographic illustrations of the scenery and vegetation of the island; and it is on account of some of these illustrations that I have thought it worth while making known to the readers of NATURE the existence of such a report, though it was published as long ago as 1882. Unlike the majority of such documents, this report is too meagre; “Thompson's farm” and other matters being mentioned and illustrated in such a manner as to take for granted an amount of previous knowledge that very few readers could possibly have possessed.
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HEMSLEY, W. Vegetation of Lord Howe Island. Nature 43, 565–566 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043565a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/043565a0