The Naturalist and The Civil Engineer. 



This plea for the conservation of na- 

 tural forces and the betterment of in- 

 land navigation was read before the 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History 

 on February 4, by M. D. Burke, M. 

 Am. Soc. C. E., and has been printed 

 as a pamphlet. The paper may be 

 characterized as unprofessional be- 

 cause it contains no technical figures 

 or formulae, but is a presentation of 

 conservative conclusions, well based 

 on accurate observations. 



The Indiana State Forester's Report for 



1907 has just come to hand. It tells of 

 the work accomplished on the State 

 forest reservation, discusses the econ- 

 omic problem and some experiments, 

 and gives the Governor's Arbor Day 

 proclamation, with articles on the ob- 

 servance of Arbor Day. 



Recent Publications of the Forest Ser- 

 vice: 



Circular 127. Forest Tables — West- 

 ern Yellow Pine. 



Circular 128. Preservation of Piling 

 against Marine Wood Borers. 



Circular 132. The Seasoning and 

 Preservative Treatment of Hemlock 

 and Tamarack Cross-Ties. 



Circular 133. Production of Veneer 

 in 1906. 



Circular 134. Estimation of Moist- 

 ure in Creosoted Wood. 



Circular 135. Chestnut Oak in the 

 Southern Appalachians. 



Circular 136. Seasoning and Preser- 

 vative Treatment of Arborvitae Poles. 



Circular 137. Consumption of Poles 

 in 1906. 



Circular 139. A Primer of Wood 

 Preservation. 



Circular 140. What Forestry Has 

 Done. 



Circular 141. Wood Paving in the 

 United States. 



Circular 142. Tests of Vehicle and 

 Implement Woods. 



Senate Document 91. Report of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture on the South- 

 ern Appalachian and White Mountain 

 Watersheds. 



The Superintendent of Forestry for the 

 Dominion of Canada makes his annual 

 report for 1907 in a document recently 

 received at this office. The document 

 includes reports from the various pro- 

 vinces and from persons in charge of 

 special enterprises in the lines of for- 

 estry and of irrigation. An account is 

 given of experimentation in sowing 

 maple and ash seed with a machine; it 

 is hoped the results will be satisfac- 

 tory. About twenty-five pages are 

 given to a detailed account of the trip 

 by Mr. Stewart, the late superintend- 

 ent of forestry, down the Mackenzie 

 and up the Yukon Rivers, in the year 

 1906. 



The American Lumberman for March 

 14 reports an excellent and strikingly 

 significant address by G. E. Ames, of the 

 Puget Mill Company, Port Gamble, 

 Washington, before a meeting of the 

 State assessors at Seattle, Washington, 

 upon unjust taxation of timberland. En- 

 lightenment of assessors on this subject 

 is a good thing. 



Vick's Magazine is another periodical' 

 that is running in each issue a special 

 featuring of one or another line of en- 

 deavor for social progress. In May it 

 will have an Arbor Day issue, and will 

 make efforts to co-operate with the school 

 children in rendering Arbor Day useful. 



The New Jersey Forest Park Reserva- 

 tion Commission. The Third Annual 

 Report of this body, for 1907, has just 

 come to hand. It contains much valu- 

 able material. New Jersey has been 

 active in forestry during the year. The 

 report of the State fire warden, Mr. T. 

 P. Price, is especially valuable. There 

 has been a gradual decrease in the 

 area burned by forest fires from 1872' 

 to 1907, from 100,000 acres to 11,525 

 acres. Another fact brought out is- 

 that the fires of the past year were of 

 comparatively brief duration. This, of 

 itself, is evidence of little dam- 

 age done and of the activity of the 

 wardens. The State Forester, Mr. 

 Alfred Gaskill, contributes an article- 

 on growing chestnut for profit. 



