CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR AUGUST, 1911 



(Books and periodicals indexed in tiie Library 

 of the United States Forest Service) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Proceedings of associations 



Royal Scottish arboricultural society. 

 Transactions, vol. 24, pt. 2. 160 p. Edin- 

 burgh, 1911. 



Forest Aesthetics 



Street and park trees 



Webster, A. D. Town planting and the 

 trees, shrubs, herbaceous and other 

 plants that are best adapted for resist- 

 ing smoke. 211 p. pi. London, G. Rout- 

 ledge and sons, I't'd., 1910. 



Forest Legislation 



United States — Congress — Senate. Timber 

 legislation — Canada; laws enacted in 

 Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Colum- 

 bia, Quebec, and New Brunswick, Can- 

 ada, relative to spruce and other pulp 

 wood cut on crown lands. 5 p. Wash., 

 D. C, 1911. (62d congress — 1st session. 

 Senate document 28.) 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Office 

 of the solicitor. National forests or- 

 ganic and administrative acts; decision 

 of the Supreme court of the United 

 Sates sustaining power of Congress to 

 provide for creation of national forests 

 and for their administration under 

 rules and regulations made and pro- 

 mulgated by the Secretary of agricul- 

 ture. 7 p. Wash., D. C, 1911. (Cir- 

 cular 52.) 



Forest Botany 



Dickerson, Mary Cynthia. Trees and for- 

 estry: an elementary treatment of the 

 subject based on the Jesup collection 

 of North American woods in the Amer- 

 ican museum of natural history. 104 p. 

 il. New York, American museum of 

 natural history, 1910. 



Silvics 



Wallenbock. Rudolph. Die klimatischen un- 

 terschiede auf nord-und sfldlehnen in 

 ibrer beziehung zum wassergehalte des 

 mit altholz bestandenen und abgestock- 

 ten waldbodens. 14 p. Wien, W. Frick, 

 1911. 



Wallenbock, Rudolph. Vergleichende boden- 

 feuchtigkeitsbestimmungen in den 

 streuversuchsflachen des grossen foh- 

 renrenwaldes bei Wr. — Neustadt. 15 p. 

 Wien, W. Prick, 1911. 



Silvical characteristics of trees 



Bdhmerle, Karl. Moosdecke und holzzu- 

 wachs. 4 p. Wien, W. Frick, 1910. 



Studies of species 



Plummer, Fred G. Chaparral; studies in 

 the dwarf forests, or elfin-wood, of 

 southern California. 48 p. il., pi. map. 

 Wash., D. C, 1911. (United States— 

 Dept. of agriculture — Forest service. 

 Bulletin 85.) 



Sterrett, W. D. Scrub pine, Pinus virgin- 

 iana. 27 p. pi. Wash., D. C, 1911. (U. 

 S. — Dept. of agriculture — Forest serv- 

 ice. Bulletin 94.) 



Silviculture 



Planting 



Baker, Hugh Potter. Die prarien in Zen- 

 tralnordamerika und ihr wert fiir forst- 

 kultur. 94 p. il. Mvinchen, Kastner & 

 Callwey, 1911. 



Margolin. Louis. Eucalyptus culture in 

 Hawaii. SO p. pi. Honolulu, 1911. 

 (Hawaii — Board of agriculture & for- 

 estry — Division of forestry. Bulletin 

 1.) 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Sedlaczek, Walter. Studien iiber den Aug 

 des nonnenfalters. 26 p. Wien, W. 

 Frick, 1911. 



Stebbing, E. P. On some important insect 

 pests of the coniferae of the Himalaya 

 with notes on some insects predaceous 

 and parasitic upon them. 69 p. pi. 

 Calcutta, India, Supt. of government 

 printing, 1911. (Indian forest me- 

 moirs — Forest zoology series, v. 2, pt. 

 1.) 



Diseases 



Jaccard, Paul. Balais de sorciferes chez 

 I'SpieSa et leur dissemination. 11 p. il., 

 pi. Ziirich, 1911. 



Spaulding. Perley. The timber rot caused 

 bv Lenzites sepiaria. 4fi p. il., pi. Wash., 

 D. C, 1911. (United States— Dept. of 

 agriculture — Bureau of plant industry. 

 Bulletin 214.) 



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