The Useful Native Plants of Australia, (Including Tasmania) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

J. H. Maiden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330400216 ISBN 13: 9781330400210

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The Useful Native Plants of Australia, (Including Tasmania) 2. Vegetable Products, from the raw material through the various stages of manufacture to the finished fabric or other article. This section includes gums, resins, oils, woods, fibres, tans, dyes, drugs, perfumes. Forestry and forest products. 3. Waste Products, whether of animal, vegetable, or of inorganic origin, with illustrations of their utilization. 4. Foods, animal and vegetable, their constituents, and illustrations of their adulterations. Dietary tables and information concerning the chemical composition and other important particulars regarding the human foods of the world. 5. Economic Geology. - Metallic ores. Building and ornamental stones. Mineral combustibles. Lime, cement and hydraulic cement, raw and burned. Artificial stone. Clays, kaolin, silica, and other materials for manufacture of pottery, glass, &c. Refractory materials. Substances used for grinding and polishing; pigments of inorganic origin. Collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, to illustrate well-known textbooks. Collections of minerals to illustrate physical properties, e.g., colour, lustre, diaphaneity. Woven fabrics of mineral origin (e.g., wire-cloth, asbestos-cloth). 5A. Ceramics, Pottery, Porcelain. - Bricks, drain-tiles, terra cotta, architectural pottery; fire-clay goods, crucibles, pots, furnaces, chemical stoneware; tiles for ornament, pavements, roofing, &c.; earthenware, stoneware, art pottery and porcelain. 5B. Glass. - Glass used for construction and for mirrors, window-glass, plate-glass - rough ground and polished, toughened glass, chemical and pharmaceutical glassware, decorative glassware. 6. Original Specimens of Artistic Workmanship in wood, metal, and other substances. Coins and medals. 7. Photographs, Electrotype, Plaster, and other reproductions of examples of art workmanship where originals are not to be obtained. 8. Ethnological Specimens. - Musical instruments, national costumes, histor

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Excerpt from The Useful Native Plants of Australia, (Including Tasmania)

This book originated in a catalogue the author had prepared of such specimens obtained from plants indigenous in Australia as were in the Museum. But as the work proceeded new specimens Continued to arrive, and as it was found that the catalogue would, for that reason alone, never be complete, he decided to extend it, so as to _include all Australian plants which up to the present are known to be of economic value, or injurious to man and domestic animals.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330400216
• ISBN 13: 9781330400210
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 712