TABLE OF CONTENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     I NTRODUCTION . 
     
     THE TREATMENT OF THE EXTRACTS . . 
     
    
   
   
    
     The transcriptions 
     
     ANALYSIS OF THE EXTRACTS . 
     
     Placing the island’s forests in a wider context . 
     
     The recognition of the island’s forest-types. 
     
     The mapping of the island’s forest—types. 
     
     The forest before European settlement. 
     
     Aspects of forest ecology. 
     
     The forest ground‘ vegetation 
     
     Forest succession . 
     
     CONCLUSIONS . 
     
     REFERENCES . 
     
     THE SOURCE-BOOK EXTRACTS . 
     
     Stilgenbauer, F. A. (1929) . 
     
     Halliday, W. E. D. (1937) . 
     
     Rowe, J. S. (1959) . 
     
     Clark, A. H. (1959) . 
     
     Erskine D. S. (1960) . 
     
    
   
   
    
     Loucks O. L. (1961). 
     
    
   
   
    
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