CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR DECEMBER, 1913. 



(Books and Periodicals Indexed in the 

 Library of the United States 

 forest Service.) 



FOREST EDUCATION. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 secondary education in the United States 

 by the sub-committee on forest school 

 education ; chairman, J. W. Toumey. 36 

 p. Washington, D. C, 1913. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 publicity, by the sub-committee on pub- 

 licity ; chairman. E. T. Allen. 16 p. 

 Washingon, D. C, 1913. 



Yale Forest School. Prospectus, 1913-1914. 

 32 p. New Haven, Conn., 1913.. 



FOREST LEGISLATION. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 framing, passing and enforcing a State 

 forest law, by the sub-committee on State 

 forest policy; chairman, William T. Cox. 

 15 p. 26 cm. Washington, D. C, 1913. 



FOREST DESCRIPTION. 



Hofmann, Amerigo. Aus den waldungen 

 des f ernen Ostens ; f orstliche reisen und 

 studien in Japan, Formosa, Korea und 

 den angrenzenden gebieten Ostasiens. 

 235 p. pi., maps. Wien and Leipzig, W. 

 Frick, 1913. 



FOREST BOTANY. 



Trees — Classification and Description. 



Hillyer, V. M. Common trees ; how to know 

 them by their leaves ; illustrated with 37 

 leaf silhouettes. 30 p. il. Baltimore, Md., 

 Calvert School, 1913. 



Shannon, C. W. The trees and shrubs of 

 Oklahoma. 41 p. Norman, 1913. (Okla- 

 homa-Geological Survey. Circular No. 



4.) 

 Wooten, E. O. Trees and shrubs of New 

 Mexico. 159 p. il. Las Cruces, 1913. 

 (New Mexico — Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Bulletin 87.) 



SILVICS. 



Forest Influences. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 the relation of forests and water, by the 

 sub-committee on forest investigations ; 

 chairman, Raphael Zon. 21 p. Washing- 

 ton, D. C, 1913. 



Studies of Species. 



Knapp, Frederick B. Silviculture of whtie 

 pine (Pinus strobus). 4 p. Boston, 

 Mass., 1913. (Massachusetts forestry 

 association. Bulletin 106.) 



Shinn, Charles Howard. An economic study 

 of acacias. 38 p. pi. Washington, D. C, 

 1913. (U. S. Agriculture Dept. of. Bul- 

 letin No. 9.) 



SILVICULTURE. 



Planting. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 the conditions under which commercial 

 planting is desirable, by the suFi-commit- 

 tee on forest planting; chairman, E. H. 

 Clapp. 46 p. Washington, D. C, 1913. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 

 Fire. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 fire prevention by States, by the Fed- 

 eral Government and by private inter- 

 ests, by the sub-committee on forest 

 fires ; chairman, C. S. Chapman. 56 p. 

 Washington, D. C, 1913. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. State forest organization, 

 with special reference to fire protection, 

 by J. Girvin Peters. 62 p. Washing- 

 ton, D. C, 1913. 



Rhode Island — Dept. of Forestry. Warden 

 and Woodsman, by Jesse B. Mowr}% 24 

 p. pi. Providence, R. I., 1913. 



FOREST ECONOMICS. 



Taxation and Tariff. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 forest taxation, by the sub-committee on 

 forest taxation ; chairman, G. Pinchot. 

 32 p. Washington, D. C, 1913. 



Forest Policy. 



National Conservation Congress — Forestry 

 Committee. Advance copy of paper on 

 Federal Forest Policy, by the sub-com- 

 mittee on F'ederal forest policy ; chair- 

 man Jos. N. Teal. 36 p. Washington, 

 D. C. 1913. 



Ross, William R. Forest policy of British 

 Columbia. 17 p. n. p., 1913. 



Statistics. 



Alsace Lorraine — Abteilung fiir finanzen, 

 handel und domanen. Beitrage sur 

 forststatistik von Elsass-Lothringen, heft 

 30. 98 p. Strassburg, 1913. 



