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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Commercial Geography. By Edward Van 

 Dyke Robinson, Professor of Econo- 

 mics in the University of Minnesota, 

 former Principal of the Central High 

 School at St. Paul. Rand, McNally 

 and Company, Chicago and New York, 

 pp. XVIII, 455. 

 In his preface the author defines com- 

 mercial geography as the study of the local- 

 ization of industry, the factors involved 

 being nature, man and capital goods, there 

 being, he says, three sets of controls, the 

 natural, human and the economic, which 

 jointly determine the localization of indus- 

 try. He believes that the study of com- 

 mercial geography can be made of real 

 scientific educational value. The first part 

 of the work considers the growth and fac- 

 tors of commerce, taking up first its begin- 

 nings, then the Mediterranean age, and 

 passing on to consider how commerce de- 

 pends on land and sea, on climate, on land, 

 and on economic forces. Chapters follow 

 on the development of transportation and 

 on the principal raw materials of com- 

 merce. The second part contains chapters 

 on the continents and countries, the final 

 chapter dealing with world industries and 

 the organization of commerce. Some use- 

 ful statistical tables, and a good index, 

 occupy the last pages. Forests and fores- 

 try seem to be given adequate attention. 

 In the second chapter three pages are 

 given to a good, compact statement of the 

 relation of the forest and its economic 

 importance to d an and the forests appear 

 afterward in connection with each country 

 having forests of commercial importance. 

 The scope of this book is elementary and 

 necessarily brief but the facts are well and 

 apparently accurately stated and the book 

 fulfills its announced purpose of being 

 suggestive and making the student think. 

 There are numerous maps, good, thou';h 

 small. 



MONTHLY LIST FOR MAY, 1911 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the Library 

 of the United States Forest Service) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Goodrich, L. W. Forestry. 20 p. pi., diagr. 

 New London, Conn., New England 

 water works association, 1910. 



Rhodes, J. E. The attitude of the lumber- 

 men towards forestry. 8 p. Minne- 

 apolis, Mississippi Valley lumberman, 

 1911. 



Encyclopedias, dictionaries and calendars 



Annuaire des eaux et forets, vol. 50. 371 p. 



Paris, L. Laveur, 1911. 

 Forst-und jagd-kalender, vol. 39, pt. 2. 



S74 p. Berlin, J. Springer, 1911. 



Proceedings of associations 



Society forestiSre de Franche-Comtfe et Bel- 

 fort. Annuaire, 1911. 105 p. Besan- 

 con, 1911. 



University of Nebraska-Forest club. The 

 forest club annual, vol. 3. 119 p. 11., 

 pi. Lincoln, Nebr., 1911. 



Forest History and Biographies of Foresters 



Petraschek, Karl. Josef Wesselys berufs- 

 biographie; ein ausschnitt aus der ges- 

 chichte des forstwesens osterrelch- 

 Ungarns. 319 p. pi. Wien, W. Frlck, 

 1908. 



Forest Education 



Schmid, Stefan. Gedanken uber das forst- 

 liche unterrichtswesen in osterreich. 

 25 p. Reichstadt, Austria, 1909. 



Arbor day 



New York state education department. 

 Arbor day annual, May 5, 1911. 54 p. 

 11. Albany, N. Y., 1911. 



Wisconsin — Dept. of education. Arbor and 

 bird day annual. 135 p. 11., pi. Madi- 

 son, Wis., 1911. 



Forest schools . 



Reichstadt, Austria — Hohere forstlehran- 

 stalt, Jahresschrift, 1909. Ill p. pi. 

 Leipa, 1911. 



Reichstadt, Austria — Hohere forstlehran- 

 stalt. Organisation der hoheren for- 

 stlehranstalt zu Reichstadt. 18 p. 

 Reichstadt, 1908. 



Reichstadt, Austria — Hohere forstlehran- 

 stalt. Spezieller lehrplPi fur den un- 

 terricht an der hoher. i forstlehran- 

 stalt zu Reichstadt. 24 . Reichstadt, 

 n. d. 



Reuss, Hermann. Festschrift zur feier des 

 50-jahrigen bestandes der Mahr.- 

 Schles hoheren forstlehranstalt, Aus- 

 see, Eulenberg, Mahr.-Weisskirchen. 

 334 p. il., pi. Briinn, Mahr.-Schles. 

 forstschulverein, 1902. 



SaL ic, Wilhelm. Entwicklung und stand 

 der dendrologischen anlagen der ho- 

 heren forstlehranstalt zu Reichstadt. 

 37 p. maps. Leipa, Austria, J. Kiinst- 

 ner, 1909. 



Schmid, Stefan. Geschichte der hoheren 

 forstlehranstalt Weisswasser-Reich- 

 stadt. 47 p. map. Reichstadt, Aus- 

 tria, 1905. 



Weisskirchen, Austria — Hohere forstlehran- 

 stalt und waldbauschule. Jahres- 

 bericht, 1909-10. 48 p. Weisskirchen 

 i. M., 1910. 



Forest Legislation 



New Brunswick — Legislative assembly. An 

 act respecting the manufacture of 

 spruce and other pulp wood cut on 

 crown lands. 3 p. n. p.. 1911? 



