Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 178
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[Page 178]
Tuesday Nov 3 – 14 Cup day in Melbourne - We got up a sweep - 2/6 tickets – 40 in it - I've got a horse - Hushmoney an outsider - – but still a horse - The S.S. Moresby went out last eveg for Sydney & carries a letter to you -
I was on the beach on Monday aftn & spent some time in the Carnegie library looking up the flora of this part - I wanted badly the name of a very fine, very common, tree with a trunk & fluted like a Greek column & with a most [indecipherable] head & branches & often with ferns & mistletoe covering it - No doctor man knows anything here but his job just like the N.O. – that is perhaps I shd say in natural science - However I got the name it is the Polynesian or Tahiti chestnut – (Inocarpus edulis) - At once I found out all about the tree - You see them round the huts of the natives in low lying ground - What grand shade trees they are -
Ferns in this island are everywhere - Fancy a total of 246 species of Ferns, Lycapods & Selaginellas