Transcriber’s Note

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Some corrections have been made to the printed text. These are listed in a second transcriber’s note at the end of the text.

OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST IN THE
PACIFIC BETWEEN 1896 AND 1899

[Frontispiece.

Selala (Vanua Levu, Fiji) (13).

Fruits with seedlings nearly ready to fall from the tree of Rhizophora mangle (shortest) and Rhizophora mucronata (longest). From Vanua Levu, Fiji. (14 of the true length.)