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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



SCIENTIFIC LITERATUEE. 



F0RE8TRY. 



The people of the country are 

 rapidly awakening to the immense 

 economic importance of our forests 

 and to the dangerous rapidity with 

 which they are being exterminated. 

 Germany and other countries have long 

 maintained strict forestry systems and 

 schools for foresters; our own re- 

 sources were so great that there seemed 



$254,000 for the present year. Schools 

 of forestry have been established at 

 Cornell, Yale and Harvard — we may 

 be sure that New York state will soon 

 repent its attitude toward the' school 

 at Cornell — and there is a general 

 awakening of interest in the whole 

 subject. 



Under these circumstances a little 

 book recently issued by Ginn and Com- 



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to be no need of economy. But we are 

 now told that the forests under present 

 methods will scarcely last for thirty 

 years, and there is a general demand 

 for more knowledge and better man- 

 agement. In the past few years the 

 Bureau of Forestry luider the national 

 government has grown rapidly, the 

 appropriation for investigation having 

 increased from $80,000 in 1901 to 



pany, entitled ' First Book of Forestry,' 

 is more deserving of notice than other 

 works of greater pretensions. The 

 author, Mr. Filbert Roth, of the 

 Bureau of Forestry, is an authority 

 on the subject, and is able to put it in 

 a simple and interesting form. The 

 book is just what is needed as a tract, 

 and it is to be hoped that it will be 

 widely read. 



