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As a beginning o£ a study of a most im- 

 portant subject, this pamphlet is practi- 

 cal, suggestive, and will well repay careful 

 examination by everyone interested in the 

 production of timber. 



Handbook of Conservation. By Mrs. Fred 

 H. Tucker, Chairman of the Conserva- 

 tion Department, Massachusetts State 

 Federation of Women's Clubs, pp. vlii, 

 911. Boston, 1911. 

 This little handbook, a kind of syllabus 

 and note-book, is the result of painstaking 

 work by the able chairman of the conserva- 

 tion department of the Massachusetts 

 State Federation of Women's Clubs. Very 

 few women have given more years of care- 

 ful and really scientific study to the sub- 

 ject of forestry and conservation than Mrs. 

 Tucker. This handbook, she says, has two 

 objects. First, to present an orderly series 

 of suggestive topics upon the conservation 

 of our natural resources, and second to 

 furnish e.xplanatcry comuients upon the 

 various phases of the subject. The topics 

 are intended as a guide to study and may 

 be used as headings for papers, assign- 

 ments for class work, or merely as a con- 

 vient analysis for the general reader to 

 keep in mind the salient points and the logi- 

 cal development of the subject. The com- 

 ment is largely in the form of quotations 

 from well-known e.xperts or practical men 

 of affairs. The book was prepared especi- 

 ally for the use of women's clubs, but all 

 students of conservation subjects will find 

 It serviceable. The author explains that 

 no attempt has been made to preserve due 

 proportion among the parts. It has been 

 the aim to elaborate some phases at the 

 expense of others. There is a general 

 outline of the conservation of our natural 

 resources, and then chapters are devoted 

 to ores and minerals, to lands and soils, 

 to waters, to forests, to the ownership 

 and control of natural resources, to birds, 

 and to shade trees. There are two final 

 chapters, one containing practical sugges- 

 tions, and one a bibliography. The work 

 in this handbook is well done. It is what 

 it claims to be, — highly suggestive and use- 

 ful as an elementary guide. We heartily 

 recommend it to lay students of forestry 

 and conservation subjects. 



MONTHLY LIST FOR MARCH, 1911 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the Library 

 of the United States Forest Service) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Abert, Federico. Apuntes forestales. 22 p. 



Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Cervantes, 



1910. 

 West Virginia — State board of agriculture. 



Report for the quarter ending Dec. 30, 



1910; forestry. 44 p. Charleston, W. 

 Va., 1911. 



Bil>liographies 



United States — Department of agriculture — 

 Division of publications. Publications 

 of the Forest service. 6 p. Wash., 

 1911. (Circular 11.) 



Forest Aesthetics 



Street and park trees 



Allendale, N. J. — Shade tree commission. 

 Statutes and ordinance. 19 p. Allen- 

 dale, 1910. 



Chicago — Special park commission. Trees; 

 when and how to plant. 15 p. il. Chi- 

 cago, 1910. (Pamphlet no. 4.) 



Levison, J. J. What trees to plant and 

 how. 4 p. Brooklyn, N. Y. (American 

 association for the planting and preser- 

 vation of city trees. Publication.) 



St. Louis, Mo. — City forester. Second and 

 third annual reports. St. Louis, Mo., 

 1908-9. 



Washington, D. C. — Superintendent of trees 

 and parkings. Twenty-fifth annual re- 

 port, 1910-10. 7 p. Wash., D. C, 1910. 



Forest Education 



Biltmore forest school. A forest fair in the 

 Biltmore forest, Nov. 26, 1908. 55 p. 

 11. Biltmore, N. C, 1908. 



Forest Legislation 



Maine — Forest commission. Maine forestry 

 district; law creating fire district; in- 

 structions to wardens; list of wardens 

 appointed. 31 p. Augusta, Me., 1910. 



United States — Congress. An act to enable 

 any state to cooperate with any other 

 state or states, or with the United 

 States, for the protection of the water- 

 sheds of navigable streams, and to ap- 

 point a commission for the acquisition 

 . of lands for the purpose of conserving 

 the navigability of navigable rivers. 8 

 p. Wash., D. C, 1910. (U. S.— 61st con- 

 gress— 3d sessions. House of Repre- 

 sentatives 11798.) 



Wisconsin — Legislature — Committee on wa- 

 ter powers, forestry and drainage. Re- 

 port, 1910. pt. 1-2. diagrs., tables. 

 Madison, Wis., 1911. 



Forest Description 



Brooks, A. B. Forestry and wood indus- 

 tries. 481 p. pi. Morgantown, W. Va., 

 1911. (West Virginia — Geological sur- 

 vey. Report, v. 5.) 



Hall, R. Clifford and Ingall, O. D. Forest 

 conditions in Illinois. 79 p. pi. Ur- 

 bana, 111., 1911. ( Illinois state labora- 

 tory of natural history. Bulletin, vol. 

 9, art. 4.) 



