There is no achievement without effort. We thank all contributors for preparing manuscripts and meeting deadlines.
We are deeply indebted to Patricia Palmer, Heather McMaster and Deborah Noon for typesetting and formatting, to Margaret Saul for preparing botanical line drawings and to Tina Schwenke, Graeme Schwenke and Deborah Noon for preparing figures.
We would like to thank NFTA, Hawaii for permission to use Figure 6.1.1, Dr N. McMeniman for Figure 4.6.1, and CSIRO for Figure 4.5.1. All other photographs were provided by R.C. Gutteridge, H.M. Shelton or W.W. Stür. We thank Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel, Switzerland for permission to reproduce Figure 4.4.1. The authors of Section 2.2 thank D. Boshier and C. Hughes for useful comments on their manuscript, and the authors of Section 6.2 thank Brian Sutton for access to unpublished records of IMI.
R.C. Gutteridge and H.M. Shelton (editors)
June 1993
