CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR JANUARY, 1912 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 



Library of the United States Forest 



Service.) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Encyclopedias, dictionaries and calendars 

 Forst — und jagd-kalender, 1912, v. 40, pt. 1. 

 237 p. Berlin, J. Springer, 1912. 



Forest Education 



Jackson, Edwin R. Forestry in nature study, 

 with a key to common kinds of trees 

 by Wm. H. Lamb. 43 p. il. Wash., 

 D. C, 1911. (U. S. Dept. of agriculture. 

 Farmers' bulletin 468.) 



Forest Legislation 



New Hampshire — Forestry commission. State 

 of New Hampshire; forest laws and 

 organization of the forestry department. 

 6o p. map. Concord, N. H., 1911. 



Washington — Legislature. Forest protection 

 law, to preserve forests and prevent and 

 suppress forest fires, 1911. 25 p. Olympia, 

 Wash., State board of forest commis- 

 sioners, 1911. 



Forest Botany 



Trees, classification and description 



Winkenwerder, Hugo. Short keys to the 

 trees of Oregon and Washington. 16 p. 

 Seattle, Wash., University of Washing- 

 ton. 



Silviculture 

 Planting 



Maldonado, Ernesto. Das dunas de Chanco 

 i Tongoi. 17 p. pi. Santiago de Chile, 

 Impr. Cervantes, 1908. 



Pruning 



Balfour, Isaac Bayley. Report on tree 

 pruning. 6 p. pi. London, Published by 

 His Majesty's stationery office, 1911. 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Hopkins, A. D. The dying of pine in the 

 southern states ; cause, extent, and rem- 

 edy. 15 p. il. Wash., D. C, 1911. 

 (U. S. — Dept. of agriculture. Farmers' 

 bulletin 476.) 



Swenk, Myron H. A new sawfly enemy of 

 the bull pine in Nebraska. 33 p. il. 

 Lincoln, Nebr., Agricultural experiment 

 station, 1911. 



Diseases 



Kern, F. D. A biologic and taxonomic 

 study of the genus Gymnosporangium. 

 104 p. N. Y., 1911. (N. Y.— Botanical 

 garden. Bulletin, v. 7, no. 26.) 



Selby, A. D. A brief handbook of the dis- 

 eases of cultivated plants in Ohio. 456 



p. il. Wooster, O. 1910. (Ohio— Agri- 

 cultural experiment station. Bulletin 

 214.) 



Fires 



California — State board of forestry. A hand- 

 book of forest protection; forest laws, 

 rules for the prevention of fires, Hst 

 of firewardens, 1911; July issue. 63 p. 

 Sacramento, Cal., 1911. 



Washington— Forest fire association. Fourth 

 annual report. 20 p. Seattle, Wash., 1911. 



Western forestry and conservation associa- 

 tion. Proceedings of forest fire con- 

 ference of the forest protective organiza- 

 tions of the Pacific Coast, Portland, 

 Ore., Dec. 4, 1911. 34 p. il. Portland, 

 Ore., The Timberman, 1911. 



Wyrnan, Thos. B. The relation of the min- 

 ing industry to the prevention of forest 

 fires. 7 p. Munising, Mich., 1911. 



Forest Administration 



Norway — Skogdirektoren. Indberetnin"- om 

 det Norske skogvaesen for 1910. 209 

 p. Kristiania, 1911. 



Philippine Islands — Bureau of forestry. An- 

 nual report of the director of forestry 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. 

 _ 42 p. ol., diap-r., map. Manila, 1911. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. The national forest manual; 

 claims, settlement, administrative sites. 

 56 p. Wash., D. C, 1912. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. Report of the forester for 1911. 

 78 p. Washington, D. C, 1912. 



Vermont — State forester. Third annual re- 

 port, 1911. 44 p. pi. Burlington, Vt., 1911. 



Forest Utilization 



Lum bering 



Penny, John Compton, Comp. Tasmanian 



forestry ; timber products and sawmill- 



ing industry. 2d ed. 98 p. il., map. 



Hobart, Tasmania, Dept. of lands and 



surveys, 1910. 



Wood-using industries 



Maxwell, Hu. The wood-using industries 



of Louisiana. 16 p. New Orleans, La., 



Lumber trade journal, 1912. 



forest by-products 



Veitch, F. P. and Donk, M. G. Wood 

 turpentine ; its production, refining, prop- 

 erties and uses. 76 p. il. Wash., D. C., 

 1911. (U. S.— Dept. of agriculture- 

 Bureau of chemistry. Bulletin 144.) 



Wood technology 



Warren, W. H. The strength, elasticity, 

 and other properties of New South 

 Wales hardwood timbers. 100 o. il, 

 diagr. Sydney, 1911. (New South 

 Wales — Dept. of forestry.) 



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