The Forest Flora of South Australia - 45 coloured botanical lithographic plates

John Ednie Brown was born in Scotland and followed in the footsteps of his father who was a noted Scottish arboriculturalist. He spent time in the United States of America and Canada from 1871-1872 and wrote two well regarded papers on the forests of North America. He subsequently became a member of the Linnean Society. Appointed Conservator of Forests to the Province of South Australia in 1878 he undertook, as one of his many tasks, to publish a set of pictures that would be educational and attractive to the public. The following is from his Introduction to The Forest Flora of South Australia -

In issuing the Forest Flora of South Australia the Author's object is to lay before the public, in a pleasing form, a collection of illustrations of the principal arborescent plants of that portion of the Australian Continent known as the province of South Australia.

John Ednie Brown wrote the letterpress or descriptions of the botanical specimens and acknowledges the assistance given to him by Baron Sir Ferdinand von Muller the "highly distinguished Government Botanist of Victoria".

Rosa Fiveash was a botanical watercolourist so highly regarded that she was engaged over many years to illustrate scientific papers. She spent most of her life living with her sister at "Gable House", No. 179 Ward Street, North Adelaide.

Harcourt Barrett was the chromolithographer and he also did some of the original artwork. His initials appear on most plates as 'Drawn on Stone by H.B." He claimed that Rosa did the centre sprays for 32 of the drawings and that for these he did the surrounding details and also the remaining plates. For some of these he worked from photographs, which is noted on the relevant plates.

rgsp 581.9942 B878d 9 Parts
rgsp 581.9942 B878d Part 9 only

RGSSA has one bound complete copy plus a collection of all nine parts as issued in the one folder.