Tree Leaves, Forest Leaves, Tree Foliage

Artist: Botanicals Prints by Thomas Kirk
Circa: 1889
Size: 8 inches x 13 inches
Black and White Prints include: Honeysuckle, Lancewood, Tanekaha, Dwarf Totara, Hall Totara, Tangiao, Tawari, Raukawa and many more.

Comments: This is one of the finest collection Botanical Prints. Each of the Prints of Forest Leaves are done in Black and White. The collection contains wonderful Antique Prints of Tree Leaves. All from the New Zealand Forests. As well of a number of prints of a logging operation. There are an number of fine artists that drew these Tree Foliage including Thomas Kirk published in 1889. They are large stone lithographs the size is 13 inches x 8 inches. The finishing touch to your rooms décor .

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This is one of the finest collection Botanical Prints. Each of the Prints of Forest Leaves are done in Black and White. The collection contains wonderful Antique Prints of Tree Leaves. All from the New Zealand Forests. As well of a number of prints of a logging operation. There are an number of fine artists that drew these Tree Foliage including Thomas Kirk published in 1889. They are large stone lithographs the size is 13inches x 8inches
KIRK, Thomas
(1828–98).
Botanist, naturalist, and teacher.

Thomas Kirk was everywhere recognized as our fore-most botanist, and it is almost an irretrievable loss to science that his career should have been cut short. When in the midst of a great work on the botany of New Zealand Forest Flora. The portion of the work that was in print at the time of his death covers descriptions of this flowering plants leaves as far as the end of the natural order Composite. This is equal to rather more than half of the first volume of Hooker's Handbook. These sheets, containing 363 pages, have been submitted to Sir Joseph Hooker for perusal and comment, and it is hoped that satisfactory arrangements will be made for completing the work. In the meantime it is proposed that Mr. Kirk's portion should at once be published under the superintendence of his son, Mr. H. B. Kirk, who is thoroughly Qualified for the task.
New Zealand Forest Flora, the late Mr. Kirk contributed 122 botanical prints and papers to our Transactions, and supplied numerous papers for publication in the Journal of the Linnœan Society, London, the Gardener's Chronicle, Nature, Journal of Botany, and the Journal of the Linnœan Society of New South Wales. In his official capacity as Commissioner of Forests he made botanical explorations in every part of the colony, and no other botanist has ever acquired such a complete familiarity with the New Zealand Forest , and particularly with the geographical distribution of the various species of plants.

Appointed Chief Conservator of State Forests in 1885, Kirk organized the first State Forests branch of the Department of Lands and Survey. Though not a forester, he was a strong advocate of scientific forest conservation and in his short term of office laid sound foundations. He recommended the formation of a school of forestry and homology. His forest regulations greatly reduced the wasteful use of indigenous forests, and 800,000 acres were dedicated as forest reserves in his term of office. In 1888 depressed economic conditions led to the closing of the section and Kirk's services were dispensed with – a matter of great regret as he had hoped to ensure the future of the native forests and the wise utilization of both major and minor forest products. During his term as Chief Conservator, Kirk commenced work on his Forest Flora, published by the Government in 1889. To this work, a descriptive account of the economic trees and shrubs comprised in the New Zealand Forest Flora, Kirk brought capabilities of a high order. On his compulsory retirement Kirk continued his botanical explorations, his major excursions being to Stewart Island, Auckland and Campbell Islands, and the Snares and Antipodes Islands. The vegetation of the latter had not previously been recorded.

In 1894 Kirk was commissioned by the New Zealand Government to prepare a Forest Flora of the colony, but it had not been completed when illness ended his life on 8 March 1898.

Reserved and dignified, fond of old-world courtesies, gentlemanly in his bearing towards all, Kirk combined an austere love of veracity and righteousness with a wholesome hatred of the mean and base. All efforts to benefit mankind won his approval and all human goodness his admiration. He was an amiable man whose gift of humor endeared him to family and friends. Young people liked and trusted him, seeking his guidance freely. First and foremost student and teacher, Kirk was convinced that only a succession of earnest workers could ensure the success of research into the forest flora and fauna of any district, “those of the present taking up the work where it fell from the hands of their predecessors, and in their turn passing it on to those who reap the benefit of their labors”. His own family (five children survived him) was a remarkable example of the young following the tenets and teaching of the older generation.

For over 30 years Kirk corresponded with settlers and students in all parts of the colony, and botanists in many parts of the world, for years writing over 1,000 letters annually. For those 30 years, without stint or material recompense, he gave of his time and scientific knowledge to benefit the colony, and he died a poor man. His widow, appealed to the Government for a compassionate allowance, but was denied it.

Sir Joseph Hooker wrote on Kirk's death: “This is a great loss to Botany, for indeed except the late Baron von Mueller there was no other cultivator of Botany in the Southern Hemisphere who could compare with him and I have been looking for years for the Forest Flora of New Zealand by him as to a work of very great scientific importance”.

Kirk contributed papers to Nature, the Journal of Botany, London, the Linnean Society, and the Gardeners' Chronicle, and almost every volume of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, from Vol. 1 in 1868 to the date of his death, has numerous contributions from his pen. In 1875 his report on the durability of New Zealand timbers was published; his most important completed work, the Forest Flora of New Zealand, appeared in 1889; and in 1899 the portion of his unfinished Flora of New Zealand in a sufficiently complete state to be published was issued as the Students' Flora of New Zealand and Outlying Islands.

by Alan Drummond McKinnon, B.FOR.SC. Assistant Director (Forest Management) New Zealand Forest Service, Wellington and Lanna Coughlan, New Zealand Forest Service, Wellington.
'KIRK, Thomas', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966.

 

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