Julie Marginson

Julie Marginson reviews ‘Botanists of the Eucalypts’ by Norman Hall & ‘Australian Ferns and Fern Allies’ by D. L. Jones and S. C. Clemensha

October 1978, no. 5 • 22 October 1978

Botanists of the Eucalypts is a compilation of short biographies of people who have contributed to the taxonomy of our most conspicuous tree genus. The author is a retired member of the former CSIRO Forestry and Timber Bureau, where he worked extensively on eucalypts. He has prepared approximately 400 entries which collectively reveal the tremendous diversity of the people involved – professiona ... (read more)

Julie Marginson reviews 'Eucalypts for Wood Production' by W.E. Hillis and A.G. Brown, 'Keys to the Families and Genera of Queensland Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta)' by H.T. Clifford and Gwen Ludlow and 'Emigrant Eucalypts' by Robert Fyfe Zacharin

June 1979, no. 11 • 01 June 1979

Eucalypts for Wood Production is a highly professional reference work produced by a team of Australian forest scientists most of whom work in state, government forestry services, CSIRO or the Department of Forestry at ANU. It consists of a series of reviews of scientific literature bringing together all that is presently known of the growth habits of eucalypts from the point of view of their manag ... (read more)