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address, together with much interesting information about New Zea- 

 land's forest resources, was pubHshed in recent numbers of the Journal 

 of Agriculture. Mr. Hutchins has been engaged in practical forestry 

 work in British possessions for over forty years. He was engaged in 

 the demarcation of forest reserves in India as early as 1872, — twenty 

 years before the setting aside of the first reserves in the United States, 

 under President Harrison. He has since been active as Conservator 

 of Forests in Cape Colony and British East Africa, and during the 

 past year has been making a preliminary survey of the forests of New 

 Zealand and preparing a report upon them. 



AVith the beginning of the present year an amalgamation was effected 

 between the Proceedings of the Society 'of American Foresters and the 

 Forestry Quarterly, resulting in the appearance of the American Journal 

 of Forestry. Dr. B. E. Fernow is Editor-in-Chief and Mr. Raphael 

 Zon is Managing Editor, assisted by a group of seven associate editors 

 representing different phases of forest work. The new journal will 

 appear eight times a year, and will contain from 800 to 1200 pages of 

 original articles, notes, reviews, personals, and reports of society affairs. 

 The subscription price is $3 per annum. 



Dr. W. C. Coker and Mr. H. R. Totten, of the University of North 

 Carolina, have recently issued a booklet on The Trees of North Carolina. 

 It contains untechnical descriptions of the 166 species of trees com- 

 prised in the flora of that state. A less conservative treatment would 

 have included about a dozen more hawthorns, another dozen of shrubby 

 forms which occasionally reach the size of small trees, and a few" trees 

 which have escaped from cultivation. 



The University of Chicago Press announces the preparation of a 

 volume entitled The Living Cycads, by Dr. C. J. Chamberlain, and 

 another on Mechanics of Delayed Germination in Seeds, by Dr. 

 William Crocker. 



