10 FORESTRY [Bot. Absts., Vol. VI, 



BOTANICAL EDUCATION 



C. Stuart Gager, Editor 

 Alfred Gundersen, Assistant Editor 



67. Berget, D. H. The teaching of elementary systematic bacteriology. [Author's 

 abst. of paper read before Soc. Amer. Bact.] Absts. Bact. 4: L 1920. — The student is given 

 a list of simple and expressive terms to be used in the description of cultures. All the observa- 

 tions and descriptions of cultures are entered in unruled note books about 8 by 10 inches. 

 Simple methods of staining are practiced on different morphologic types of non-pathogenic 

 bacteria. Drawings are made of each organism studied. The student is taught how to trans- 

 plant cultures from one medium to another and to isolate bacteria in pure culture from mixed 

 cultures by the plate method. The pure cultures are planted on all the usual laboratory media 

 for a systematic study. The observations and descriptions in the systematic study are 

 entered in the student's note book in a definite order. The descriptions are made according 

 to the terminology given. The character and the progressive development in the cultures 

 are illustrated by drawings. 



68. Campbell, Douglas Houghton. The springtime garden in California. Nat. Study 

 Rev. 16: 1S1-18S. 1920. — Describes California garden conditions, with mention of man- 

 zanita, almond, toyon, eucalyptus, daphne, narcissus, iris and other plants. — A. Gundersen. 



69. Kirkhuff, Pauline. The flower land— California. Nat. Study Rev. 16: 228-230. 

 1920. 



70. Palmer, Clayton F. Agriculture in the elementary schools of Los Angeles City. 

 Nat. Study Rev. 16: 217-220. 1920. 



71. Riley, Dolores. California's tree islands. Nat. Study Rev. 16: 223-224. 1920.— 

 Monterey pine, Monterey cypress, Torrey pine. 



72. Rogers, Julia Ellen. At Palm Springs with the Sierra Club. Nat. Study Rev. 16: 

 195-197. 1920. 



FOREST BOTANY AND FORESTRY 



Raphael Zon, Editor 

 J. V. Hofmann, Assistant Editor 



73. Adamson, R. W. The Bartram oak. Sci. Amer. 122: 301. 1920. 



74. Afzal, Muhammed, and others. Progress report of forest administration in Baluchi- 

 stan for 1918-19. 24 p. Calcutta, 1920. — An area of 313 square miles of reserved forests is 

 reported and 472 square miles of unclassed forests with no changes in the last 5 years. The 

 chief object of forest policy aimed at in this Province is to preserve the few existing forests 

 and thereby prevent denudation. The forests are administered for the public benefit. The 

 reservation of the forests does not aim at any profit to the Government but at checking de- 

 struction by regulating the rights and restricting the privileges of users. The financial state- 

 ment shows these averages, for the last 5 years: Revenue, 20,539 Rs, Expenditure 28,130 Rs, 

 giving a deficit of 7591 Rs. During the past year the deficit sank to 2403 Rs against a 13,607 

 Rs deficit the previous year. The area open to grazing was 45.3 per cent of the total area of 

 the State forests. In experimental planting deodar and blue pine failed to germinate but 

 chil was satisfactory. There was heavy winter loss of chil seedlings but those surviving give 

 good promise. Natural reproduction of the hill species is scarce in all forests as there was a 

 bad seed year. Babool and Jhand seedlings started in the Sibi forests but were killed by fail- 

 ure of the summer monsoon. Coppice reproduction of tamarisk and willow has, as usual, 



