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OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST IN THE
PACIFIC BETWEEN 1896 AND 1899
Selala (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄3).
Fruits with seedlings nearly ready to fall from the tree of Rhizophora mangle (shortest) and Rhizophora mucronata (longest). From Vanua Levu, Fiji. (1⁄4 of the true length.)
Rhizophora mangle (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄4).
Rhizophora mucronata (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (1⁄5).
PREFACE
Although this volume contains a great amount of originalmaterial, I am largely indebted to the labours of my predecessorsfor its present form; and a scheme that at first was limitedonly to my own observations in the Pacific has gradually extendeditself to the general subject of plant-dispersal. Thefarther I proceeded in my work the more I realised that thefloras of the Pacific islands are of most interest in their connections,and that the problems affecting them are problemsconcerning the whole plant-world. Deprived of the writingsof Seemann, Hillebrand, Drake del Castillo, a