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Title: The Popular science monthly
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Science Technology
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alms, tree ferns andvarious vines and epiphytes was bewildering. Along the streamsAngiopteris, a remarkable fern, small specimens of which are occasion-ally seen in greenhouses, reaches a tremendous size, with leaves nearlytwenty feet long and stalks as large as a mans arm. At Herberton,near Cairns, a beautiful tree fern, Dicksonia Youngii, is so abundantthat it forms almost impenetrable jungles. Besides, in open places, allthree genera of cycads found in Australia may be secured within asingle days tramp. 428 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY In this region I had my first view of the Australian bushman, and.he is certainly the lowest of all the natives I met during the whole trip.I could admire his boomerang and the way he threw it, and also hisalmost ape-like agility in climbing trees, but he hardly seems to bereassuring material for civilized citizenship. Although a years field study of the cycads about Cairns and northof Cairns would doubtless have proved productive, I had no more time,
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Fig. 6. Platycerium, the Stag Horn Fern. and had to hasten to meet my boat sailing from Sydney on December16, 1911. There are few cycads south of Sydney, and consequently, asteamer stop of three days at Melbourne finished the work in Australia.Although Melbourne is about 1,500 miles south of the Tropic ofCapricorn, the climate is mild, and palms, tree ferns, cycads andaraucarias flourish in the botanical gardens. The director, Mr. Cronin,was particularly proud of the tree fern display, which could hardly be A ROUND-THE-WORLD BOTANICAL EXCURSION 429 surpassed. For scenic beauty the garden at Melbourne deserves a highrank among the great botanical gardens of the world. After a long voyage of twenty-six days, we arrived at Durban, theprincipal port of South East Africa. Here I was the guest of Dr. J.B. McCord, a medical missionary, and a fellow alumnus of OberlinCollege, whose knowledge of South Africa, and especially of Zululand,greatly facilitated my investigations. At the botanical ga
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